English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 59

And he set into a gallop after Johnny-cake, who went on and on so fast that the wolf too saw there was no hope of overtaking him, and he too lay down to rest.

Who acts: wolf, Johnny cake, hope · What happens: set, go, see, be, overtake, lie down · To what, where: gallop, wolf · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wolf, Johnny cake, hope), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 set	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 gallop	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gallop	det
6	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
7	after	after	ADP	_	10 cake	case
8	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cake	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Johnny	punct
10	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cake	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 on	cc
16	on	on	ADV	_	14 on	conj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 fast	advmod
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 set	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 saw	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wolf	det
21	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	nsubj
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 saw	advmod
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fast	advcl
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saw	ccomp
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 hope	det
27	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	nsubj
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 overtaking	mark
29	overtaking	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 hope	acl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 overtaking	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 lay	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 lay	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lay	nsubj
34	too	too	ADV	_	35 lay	advmod
35	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saw	conj
36	down	down	ADV	_	35 lay	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 rest	mark
38	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 lay	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	wolf		a gallop	after Johnny cake	fast property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	go	past	Johnny cake					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	the wolf					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be	past	no hope		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	overtake	gerund	no hope not said here	wolf				tree rules
6	lie down	past	wolf				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	rest	to-infinitive	wolf 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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