The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 21

The Prince ran after her, but as he was running he caught his foot in the root of a tree and fell, and when he got up again, she was nowhere to be seen.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: run, catch, fall, get up, see · To what, where: foot, root, girl

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 caught	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 caught	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 running	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 running	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 running	aux
11	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 caught	advcl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 caught	nsubj
13	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 foot	nmod:poss
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 caught	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 root	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 root	det
18	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 caught	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 root	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 caught	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 got	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 got	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 got	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 got	nsubj
28	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 got	compound:prt
30	again	again	ADV	_	28 got	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 seen	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 seen	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 seen	aux:pass
34	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 seen	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	37 seen	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 seen	aux:pass
37	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ran	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the Prince			after girl		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past · progressive	Prince					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	past	Prince	Prince's foot	the root of a tree			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
4	fall	past	Prince not said here					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get up	past	Prince			again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	see	past · passive		girl			nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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