The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 59

They were almost up to him when he dashed into a very narrow cleft in the rock, much too small for them to follow; but in his hurry he had left one of his long ears sticking out, which they just managed to seize.

Who acts: beasts, hare, one long ears · What happens: be, dash, follow, leave, stick out, manage · To what, where: narrow cleft, hurry, one long ears

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beasts, hare, one long ears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 him	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 him	cop
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 him	advmod
4	up	up	ADP	_	6 him	case
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dashed	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 dashed	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dashed	nsubj
9	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	14 cleft	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cleft	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 narrow	advmod
13	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cleft	amod
14	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dashed	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 rock	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rock	det
17	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cleft	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 small	punct
19	much	much	ADV	_	21 small	advmod
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 small	advmod
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rock	amod
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 follow	mark
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 follow	nsubj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 follow	mark
25	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 small	advcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 left	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 left	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 hurry	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hurry	nmod:poss
30	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 left	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 left	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 left	aux
33	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 dashed	conj
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 ears	nummod
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 ears	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 ears	nmod:poss
37	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ears	amod
38	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 left	conj
39	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 ears	acl
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 sticking	compound:prt
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 managed	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 managed	obj
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 managed	nsubj
44	just	just	ADV	_	45 managed	advmod
45	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 ears	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 seize	mark
47	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 managed	xcomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	beasts = beast			up hare; almost property	tree rules
2	dash	past	hare		a narrow cleft in the rock		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cleft=Destination
3	follow	to-infinitive	beasts = beast				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	past · perfect	hare			in hare's hurry result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in hurry=Result
5	stick out	gerund	hare's one long ears not said here				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	manage	past	beasts = beast	hare's one long ears			tree rules
7	seize	to-infinitive	beasts = beast not said here				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	hurry		hare				nom hurry «state transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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