Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 55

So the two friends walked along hand in hand as fast as they could to get out of the country, and behind them marched the soldiers and the horses with their valuable burdens.

Who acts: two friends, friends · What happens: walk, get out, march, burden · To what, where: hand, country, soldiers

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two friends, friends), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 walked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 friends	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 friends	nummod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walked	nsubj
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	along	along	ADP	_	7 hand	case
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 hand	case
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 fast	advmod
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 get	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 could	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 could	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 get	aux
15	to	to	PART	_	16 get	mark
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 walked	advcl
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 country	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 country	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 country	det
20	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 marched	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 marched	cc
23	behind	behind	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 marched	obl
25	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 soldiers	det
27	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 marched	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 horses	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horses	det
30	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 soldiers	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 burdens	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 burdens	nmod:poss
33	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 burdens	amod
34	burdens	burden	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 marched	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the two friends		hand	along hand	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along hand=Trajectory
2	get out	could	the two friends not said here	the country		fast property	tree rules
3	march	past	the two friends not said here	the soldiers and the horses		behind friends = friend; with friends's valuable burdens	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme behind they=Trajectory
4	burden		friends = friend				nom burden «cognition transitive»: 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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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