The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 40

But he did not lose courage, and ran back to the stream with his pitcher, filled it once more with water, and was home ten minutes before the King’s daughter arrived.

Who acts: wind, daughter · What happens: not lose, run back, fill, be, arrive · To what, where: courage, pitcher, ten minutes

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, daughter), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 lose	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lose	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 lose	advmod
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ran	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	parataxis
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 ran	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 stream	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stream	det
13	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 pitcher	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pitcher	nmod:poss
16	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stream	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 filled	punct
18	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 filled	obj
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 filled	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 water	case
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 filled	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 minutes	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 minutes	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 minutes	cop
27	home	home	ADV	_	29 minutes	advmod
28	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 minutes	nummod
29	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lose	conj
30	before	before	SCONJ	_	35 arrived	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 King	det
32	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 daughter	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 King	case
34	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 arrived	nsubj
35	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 minutes	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not lose	past · do-support	wind	courage		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Eventuality
2	run back	past			to the stream with wind's pitcher result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stream=Result
3	fill	past		pitcher	with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument
4	is a	past	wind not said here	ten minutes	home property	tree rules
5	arrive	past	the King's daughter			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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