The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 79

Directly you see me come tearing by with the princess on my back, jump up behind, and hold her tight, so that she does not escape you.

Who acts: you, me, princess · What happens: see, come, tear, jump up, hold, not escape · To what, where: me, tight, you

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, princess), 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	Directly	directly	ADV	_	3 see	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 see	obj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	xcomp
6	tearing	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 come	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 princess	case
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 princess	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tearing	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 back	nmod:poss
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 princess	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 jump	punct
15	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
16	up	up	ADV	_	17 behind	advmod
17	behind	behind	ADV	_	15 jump	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hold	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hold	cc
20	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 see	parataxis
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tight	nmod:poss
22	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hold	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 escape	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	29 escape	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 escape	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 escape	nsubj
27	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 escape	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 escape	advmod
29	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 hold	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 escape	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	present	you	me	directly property	tree rules
2	come	infinitive	me not said here			tree rules
3	tear	gerund	me not said here		by the princess on my back	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by princess=Trajectory
4	jump up	infinitive	me not said here		behind property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hold	infinitive		princess's tight		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tight=Theme
6	not escape	present · do-support	princess	you		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Initial_Location

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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