English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 41

But Johnny-cake outran all three a long way, and was soon out of sight, while they had to sit down, all out of breath, on a bank to rest.

Who acts: hoes · What happens: be, have, sit down, rest · To what, where: sight, all, bank

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 (hoes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 outran	cc
2	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 outran	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Johnny	punct
4	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outran	nsubj
5	outran	outran	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 three	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 outran	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 way	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 three	nmod:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sight	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sight	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sight	cop
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 sight	advmod
15	out	out	ADP	_	17 sight	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 sight	case
17	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outran	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 outran	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 sit	mark
23	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	xcomp
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 sit	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 all	punct
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 sit	obl
27	out	out	ADP	_	29 breath	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 breath	case
29	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 all	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bank	punct
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 bank	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bank	det
33	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sit	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 rest	mark
35	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sit	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 outran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			sight	soon property	tree rules
2	have	past	hoes = hoe				tree rules
3	sit down	to-infinitive	hoes = hoe not said here	all	a bank		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
4	rest	to-infinitive	hoes = hoe not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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