The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 58

Then she chased it from place to place, and at last had it safe between her fingers, almost as frightened as on the day that it had made its first entrance into the hut.

Who acts: woman · What happens: chase, have, frighten, make · To what, where: bird, place, last, hut

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 chased	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chased	nsubj
3	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chased	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 place	case
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chased	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 place	case
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 had	obl
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chased	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	obj
15	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 had	xcomp
16	between	between	ADP	_	18 fingers	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 fingers	nmod:poss
18	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 safe	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 frightened	punct
20	almost	almost	ADV	_	22 frightened	advmod
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 frightened	advmod
22	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 had	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	26 day	case
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 day	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 frightened	obl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 made	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 made	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 made	aux
30	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 day	advcl
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 entrance	nmod:poss
32	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 entrance	amod
33	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 made	obj
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 hut	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hut	det
36	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 made	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	woman	bird	place to place	then		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from place=Trajectory
2	have	past		bird	last		safe property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	frighten	participle				day	almost property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	make	past · perfect · passive		bird	the hut			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary entrance=Product

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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