English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 39

The little boy ran to shut the door, but Johnny-cake was too quick for him and rolled through the door, down the steps, and out into the road long before the little boy could catch him.

Who acts: little boy, Johnny cake · What happens: run, shut, be, roll, catch · To what, where: door

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, Johnny cake), 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	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 shut	mark
6	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ran	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shut	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 quick	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 quick	cc
11	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cake	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Johnny	punct
13	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 quick	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 quick	cop
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 quick	advmod
16	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ran	parataxis
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 quick	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rolled	cc
20	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 quick	conj
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 door	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rolled	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 steps	punct
25	down	down	ADP	_	27 steps	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 steps	det
27	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ran	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 road	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 road	cc
30	out	out	ADV	_	33 road	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 road	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 road	det
33	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	parataxis
34	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 road	advmod
35	before	before	SCONJ	_	40 catch	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 boy	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 boy	amod
38	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 catch	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 catch	aux
40	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ran	advcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 catch	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	the little boy				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	shut	to-infinitive	the little boy not said here	the door			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	is	past	Johnny cake			for door; quick property	tree rules
4	roll	participle	Johnny cake not said here		the door		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Trajectory
5	catch	could	the little boy	door			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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