The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 38

The man took flight and rushed oft into the field, and there he found the crane marching proudly about, and to him he told his tale.

Who acts: man, crane · What happens: take, rush, find, march, tell · To what, where: flight, field, crane, tale, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, crane), 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	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rushed	cc
6	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
7	oft	oft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rushed	xcomp
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 field	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 field	det
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rushed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 found	expl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 found	nsubj
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crane	det
17	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obj
18	marching	march	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 crane	acl
19	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	18 marching	advmod
20	about	about	ADV	_	18 marching	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 tale	nmod:poss
28	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 told	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the man	flight				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme
2	rush	past	the man not said here				into the field result; oft property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into field=Result
3	find	past	man	the crane		there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crane=Topic
4	march	gerund	the crane not said here				about, proudly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	man	man's tale	man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to he=Recipient
6	tell		man					nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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