The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 37

The headless man thanked him humbly, slid hastily down the bell rope, and ran down the steps of the tower as if he had left a fire behind him.

Who acts: headless man, kick · What happens: thank, slide, run down, leave, step · To what, where: kick, bell rope, steps, fire, tower

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (headless man, kick), 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	headless	headless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	nsubj
4	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thanked	obj
6	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	4 thanked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slid	punct
8	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thanked	conj
9	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	8 slid	advmod
10	down	down	ADP	_	13 rope	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rope	det
12	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rope	compound
13	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ran	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ran	cc
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thanked	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 ran	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 steps	det
19	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ran	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 tower	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tower	det
22	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 steps	nmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 left	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 left	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 left	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 left	aux
27	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 ran	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 fire	det
29	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 left	obj
30	behind	behind	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 left	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the headless man		kick		humbly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	slide	past	the headless man not said here			the bell rope	hastily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down rope=Trajectory
3	run down	past	the headless man not said here	the steps of the tower				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory
4	leave	past · perfect	kick	a fire			behind dwarf	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fire=Theme behind he=Location
5	step			the tower				nom step «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 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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