The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 22

The tailor, who had been watching the fight with amazement, was still standing motionless when the stag bounded up to him, and before he had time to escape forked him up with its great antlers, and set off at full gallop over hedges and ditches, hill and dale, through wood and water.

Who acts: tailor, stag, standing · What happens: watch, stand, bound up, escape, fork up, set off · To what, where: fight, tailor, full gallop

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, stag, standing), 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 tailor	det
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 standing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 watching	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 watching	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 watching	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 watching	aux
7	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tailor	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fight	det
9	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watching	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 amazement	case
11	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fight	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tailor	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 standing	aux
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 standing	advmod
15	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 forked	csubj:pass
16	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 standing	xcomp
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 bounded	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stag	det
19	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bounded	nsubj
20	bounded	bound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 standing	advcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 bounded	compound:prt
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bounded	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 had	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 forked	aux
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 escape	mark
31	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 time	acl
32	forked	fork	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 forked	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 forked	compound:prt
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 antlers	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 antlers	nmod:poss
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 antlers	amod
38	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 forked	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 set	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 set	cc
41	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 forked	conj
42	off	off	ADP	_	41 set	compound:prt
43	at	at	ADP	_	45 gallop	case
44	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 gallop	amod
45	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 set	obl
46	over	over	ADP	_	47 hedges	case
47	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 set	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 ditches	cc
49	ditches	ditch	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 hedges	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 hill	punct
51	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hedges	conj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 dale	cc
53	dale	dale	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hedges	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 wood	punct
55	through	through	ADP	_	56 wood	case
56	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hedges	conj
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 water	cc
58	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 wood	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 forked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · perfect · progressive	the tailor	the fight				with amazement	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme
2	stand	past · progressive	the tailor				still	motionless property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bound up	participle	the stag		tailor				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination
4	escape	to-infinitive	standing not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fork up	past · perfect	standing	tailor				with stag's great antlers	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	set off	infinitive	standing not said here			full gallop		over hedges and ditches and hill and dale and wood and water	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over hedge=Initial_Location

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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