English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 13
Away scampered the thieves, but Mr. Vinegar dared not quit his retreat till broad daylight.
Who acts: Vinegar · What happens: scamper, quit · To what, where: thieves, retreat
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vinegar), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 scampered | advmod |
| 2 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thieves | det |
| 4 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 scampered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 quit | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 quit | cc |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Vinegar | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Vinegar | Vinegar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 quit | nsubj |
| 9 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 quit | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 dared | advmod |
| 11 | quit | quit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 scampered | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 retreat | nmod:poss |
| 13 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 quit | obj |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 daylight | case |
| 15 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 daylight | amod |
| 16 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 quit | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scampered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scamper | participle | the thieves | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location thief=Theme | ||||
| 2 | quit | past | Vinegar Mr. | Jack's retreat | till broad daylight | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent retreat=Source |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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