English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 40

The little boy ran after him as fast as he could clip it, crying out to his father and mother, who heard the uproar, and threw down their hoes and gave chase too.

Who acts: little boy, mother · What happens: run, cry out, hear, throw down, give · To what, where: CAKE, father, uproar, hoes, chase

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, mother), 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	after	after	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	obl
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ran	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 clip	case
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 clip	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 clip	aux
12	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fast	obl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crying	punct
15	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ran	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 crying	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 father	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crying	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mother	cc
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 father	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 heard	nsubj
24	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 mother	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 uproar	det
26	uproar	uproar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 threw	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 threw	cc
29	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	parataxis
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 threw	compound:prt
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hoes	nmod:poss
32	hoes	hoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 threw	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gave	cc
34	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 threw	conj
35	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gave	obj
36	too	too	ADV	_	34 gave	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the little boy	CAKE		after door	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory
2	cry out speech: express	gerund	the little boy not said here		boy's father and mother			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient
3	hear	past	mother	the uproar				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer uproar=Stimulus
4	throw down	past		steps's hoes				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoe=Theme
5	give	past		chase				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=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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