The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 8

The women and children ran by his side, weeping and trying to drag the sack from off his back, but he shook them off, and went on his way.

Who acts: women, man · What happens: run, try, drag, shake off, go · To what, where: sack, back, women, way

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, man), 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 women	det
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 children	cc
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 women	conj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 side	nmod:poss
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 weeping	punct
10	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 trying	cc
12	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 weeping	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 drag	mark
14	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 trying	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sack	det
16	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drag	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 back	case
18	off	off	ADP	_	20 back	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 back	nmod:poss
20	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drag	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shook	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 shook	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shook	nsubj
24	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shook	obj
26	off	off	ADP	_	24 shook	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 way	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 way	nmod:poss
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	the women and children			by man's side	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory
2	try	gerund	the women and children not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	drag not said to happen	to-infinitive	the women and children not said here	the sack	man's back		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sack=Theme from back=Initial_Location
4	shake off	past	man	women = woman			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	go	past	the women and children not said here		man's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location

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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