The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 54

At the first charge he made, the ranks of the beetles broke and fled in dismay, and those escaped best that were nearest a hole, and could get into it before Jesper’s boots came down upon them.

Who acts: Jesper, ranks, that, those · What happens: make, break, flee, escape, be, get · To what, where: first charge, dismay, hole

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jesper, ranks, that, those), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 charge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 charge	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 charge	amod
4	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 broke	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 charge	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 charge	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ranks	det
9	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 broke	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 beetles	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beetles	det
12	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ranks	nmod
13	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fled	cc
15	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 broke	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 dismay	case
17	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 came	cc
20	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 came	nsubj
21	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 those	acl
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 escaped	parataxis
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 nearest	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 nearest	cop
25	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 best	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hole	det
27	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nearest	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 get	cc
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
31	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 nearest	parataxis
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 get	obl
34	before	before	ADP	_	37 boots	case
35	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 boots	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 Jesper	case
37	boots	boots	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obl
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 broke	conj
39	down	down	ADV	_	38 came	advmod
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 came	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Jesper	the first charge not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Product
2	break	past	the ranks of the beetles		the first charge			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at charge=Location
3	flee	past	the ranks of the beetles not said here		dismay			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	escape	participle						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	that				a hole obl; near property	tree rules
6	get	could			hole	before Jesper's boots		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination
7	come down	past	those				upon Beetles = beetle; down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=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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