The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 61

As she sprang out he caught hold of her cloak; but she had taken care to let it lie loose on her shoulders, and so escaped.

Who acts: Hadvor, prince, care · What happens: spring out, catch, take, let, lie, escape · To what, where: hold, care, shoulders, cloak

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hadvor, prince, care), 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	SCONJ	_	3 sprang	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 escaped	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 sprang	compound:prt
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 caught	nsubj
6	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
7	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cloak	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cloak	nmod:poss
10	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 taken	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 taken	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taken	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sprang	conj
16	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 let	mark
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 taken	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	loose	loose	ADV	_	20 lie	advmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 shoulders	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 shoulders	nmod:poss
24	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lie	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 escaped	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 escaped	cc
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 escaped	advmod
28	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 escaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring out	past	Hadvor				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past	prince	hold of Hadvor's cloak			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
3	take	past · perfect	Hadvor	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	let	to-infinitive	Hadvor not said here	care			tree rules
5	lie	infinitive	care not said here		Hadvor's shoulders	loose property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location
6	escape	past					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hold			Hadvor's cloak			nom hold «act 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 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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