The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 53

As soon as she had gone out of sight the children took the comb and the handkerchief, and, taking one another by the hand, they started and ran, and ran, and ran.

Who acts: witch, children · What happens: go out, take, start, run · To what, where: sight, comb, one

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, children), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 took	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 soon	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 sight	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 sight	case
9	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 children	det
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 comb	det
14	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 handkerchief	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 handkerchief	det
17	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comb	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 taking	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 taking	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 taking	punct
21	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 took	advcl
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 taking	obj
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 one	fixed
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 hand	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hand	det
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taking	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 started	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 started	nsubj
29	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ran	cc
31	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 started	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ran	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 ran	cc
34	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ran	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 ran	cc
37	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 ran	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	past · perfect	witch	sight		tree rules
2	take	past	the children	the comb and the handkerchief	soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme
3	take	gerund	the children not said here	one	by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	start	past	children = child			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	run	past	children = child not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	run	past	the children not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	run	past	the children not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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