The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 18

It went all round the church, and when it finally caught sight of the smith, up in the pulpit, it came rushing thither and mounted the steps.

Who acts: Sentry · What happens: go, catch, come, rush, mount, sight · To what, where: church, sight, pulpit, steps, smith

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sentry), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	6 church	advmod
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 caught	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 caught	nsubj
11	finally	finally	ADV	_	12 caught	advmod
12	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 came	advcl
13	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caught	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 smith	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 smith	det
16	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sight	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pulpit	punct
18	up	up	ADV	_	21 pulpit	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 pulpit	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pulpit	det
21	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caught	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 caught	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
25	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 came	xcomp
26	thither	thither	ADV	_	25 rushing	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mounted	cc
28	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 came	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 steps	det
30	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 mounted	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Sentry		the church		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round church=Initial_Location
2	catch	past	Sentry	sight of the smith	the pulpit	finally property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
3	come	past	Sentry				tree rules
4	rush	gerund	Sentry not said here			thither property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mount	past	Sentry not said here	the steps			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Patient
6	sight			the smith			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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