English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 89

So the mouse stole into the castle, and got hold of the box; and when he was coming down the stairs, it fell down, and he was very near being caught.

Who acts: mouse, gentleman, box · What happens: steal, get, come down, fall down, catch, hold · To what, where: castle, hold, stairs, gentleman, box

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouse, gentleman, box), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 stole	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stole	nsubj
4	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 castle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 castle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stole	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stole	conj
11	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 box	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 box	det
14	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 coming	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 coming	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 coming	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 coming	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 coming	aux
20	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stole	advcl
21	down	down	ADP	_	23 stairs	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stairs	det
23	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 coming	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fell	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fell	nsubj
26	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stole	parataxis
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 fell	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 caught	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 caught	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 caught	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 caught	aux:pass
32	very	very	ADV	_	35 caught	advmod
33	near	near	ADP	_	35 caught	mark
34	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 caught	aux:pass
35	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 fell	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	steal	past	the mouse		the castle		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	the mouse not said here	hold of the box			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
3	come down	past · progressive	gentleman	the stairs			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stair=Theme
4	fall down	past	box			down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	catch	past · passive		gentleman			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	hold			the box			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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