English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 49

But Johnny-cake soon outstripped them also, and seeing they could never catch him, they gave up the chase and sat down to rest.

Who acts: Johnny cake, seeing, diggers · What happens: outstrip, see, not catch, give up, sit down, rest · To what, where: diggers, Johnny, 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 (Johnny cake, seeing, diggers), 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	_	6 outstripped	cc
2	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cake	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Johnny	punct
4	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 outstripped	nsubj
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 outstripped	advmod
6	outstripped	outstrip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 outstripped	obj
8	also	also	ADV	_	6 outstripped	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 catch	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 catch	cc
11	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 catch	csubj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seeing	obj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 catch	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 catch	advmod
15	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 outstripped	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 catch	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	nsubj
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 catch	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 gave	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chase	det
22	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sat	cc
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gave	conj
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 sat	compound:prt
26	to	to	PART	_	27 rest	mark
27	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sat	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 outstripped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	outstrip	past	Johnny cake	diggers = digger	soon property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
2	see	gerund		diggers = digger		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	not catch	could	seeing	Johnny		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	give up	past	diggers = digger	the chase		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Source
5	sit down	past	diggers = digger not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rest	to-infinitive	diggers = digger 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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