The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 47

The young man ran after them until he was quite exhausted and out of breath, and after three short rests the birds at length reached a small open space in the forest, on the edge of which they placed themselves on the top of a high tree.

Who acts: young man, three, length, birds · What happens: run, exhaust, rest, reach, place · To what, where: beat, birds, small open space, forest, top

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, three, length, birds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	obl
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 exhausted	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 exhausted	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 exhausted	aux:pass
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 exhausted	advmod
11	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ran	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 breath	cc
13	out	out	ADP	_	15 breath	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 breath	case
15	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 exhausted	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rests	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rests	cc
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 three	case
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 rests	nsubj
20	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 three	amod
21	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 birds	det
23	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rests	obj
24	at	at	SCONJ	_	26 reached	mark
25	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reached	nsubj
26	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 rests	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 space	det
28	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 space	amod
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 space	amod
30	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reached	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 forest	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 forest	det
33	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 space	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 edge	punct
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 edge	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 edge	det
37	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 space	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 which	case
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 placed	obl
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 placed	nsubj
41	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 edge	acl:relcl
42	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 placed	obj
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 top	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 top	det
45	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 placed	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 tree	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 tree	det
48	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 tree	amod
49	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 top	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the young man			after birds = bird		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	exhaust	past · passive		beat				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	rest	present	three	the birds				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme
4	reach	past	length	a small open space and the edge	the forest			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent space=Theme
5	place	past	birds = bird	birds = bird	the top of a high tree		of the edge	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on top=Destination

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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