The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 71

As soon as the goat felt itself free, it ran as quickly as it could, and was very soon lost to sight, and, as far as I know, was never heard of again.

Who acts: goat, back, I · What happens: feel, run, lose, know, not hear · To what, where: back

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goat, back, I), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 felt	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 felt	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goat	det
5	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	nsubj
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 felt	obj
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 felt	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ran	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 felt	conj
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 quickly	advmod
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	11 ran	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 could	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 could	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 quickly	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lost	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lost	cc
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lost	aux:pass
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 soon	advmod
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 lost	advmod
22	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 felt	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 sight	case
24	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lost	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 heard	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 heard	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 and	punct
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 far	advmod
29	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 heard	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 know	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 know	nsubj
32	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 far	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 far	punct
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 heard	aux:pass
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 heard	advmod
36	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 felt	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 again	case
38	again	again	ADV	_	36 heard	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the goat	back	free, soon property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
2	run	past	back		quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lose	past · passive	the goat not said here		to sight; soon property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»
4	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not hear	past · passive	the goat not said here		far property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of again=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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