The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 27

When he had wandered a long way he stopped to rest beside a clear spring of water, but scarcely had he thrown himself down upon the mossy bank when there was a great rustling in the bushes close by, and out sprang a pretty little gazelle panting and exhausted, which fell at his feet gasping out--

Who acts: Prince, great rustling, bushes, pretty little gazelle panting · What happens: wander, stop, rest, throw down, be, close · To what, where: long way, Prince, mossy bank, great rustling, pretty little gazelle panting, feet

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, great rustling, bushes, pretty little gazelle panting), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wandered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wandered	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	aux
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wandered	obl:unmarked
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stopped	nsubj
9	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 rest	mark
11	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stopped	xcomp
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	15 spring	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spring	det
14	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spring	amod
15	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rest	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 water	case
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spring	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thrown	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 thrown	cc
20	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	23 thrown	advmod
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thrown	aux
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thrown	nsubj
23	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 wandered	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 thrown	obj
25	down	down	ADP	_	23 thrown	compound:prt
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 bank	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bank	det
28	mossy	mossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bank	amod
29	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thrown	obl
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 was	advmod
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thrown	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 rustling	det
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 rustling	amod
35	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 was	nsubj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 bushes	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bushes	det
38	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 close	nsubj
39	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 rustling	acl:relcl
40	by	by	ADP	_	39 close	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sprang	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 sprang	cc
43	out	out	ADV	_	44 sprang	advmod
44	sprang	spring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wandered	advcl
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 panting	det
46	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 panting	amod
47	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 panting	amod
48	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 panting	compound
49	panting	panting	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sprang	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 exhausted	cc
51	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 panting	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 fell	punct
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 fell	nsubj
54	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 panting	conj
55	at	at	ADP	_	57 feet	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 feet	nmod:poss
57	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 fell	obl
58	gasping	gasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	54 fell	advcl
59	out	out	ADP	_	58 gasping	compound:prt
60	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past · perfect	Prince	a long way				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	past	Prince	a long way not said here				tree rules
3	rest	to-infinitive	Prince not said here			spring		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	throw down	past · perfect	Prince	Prince	the mossy bank		scarcely property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon bank=Destination
5	be	past	a great rustling		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	close	present	the bushes	a great rustling not said here				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rustling=Patient
7	spring	gerund	Prince not said here	a pretty little gazelle panting			out property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location panting=Theme
8	exhaust	past	Prince not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	fall	past	a pretty little gazelle panting		Prince's feet			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location
10	gasp out	gerund	a pretty little gazelle panting not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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