English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 57

Then the little boy ran out to see the thunder, and down dropped the red shoes at his feet.

Who acts: little boy · What happens: run out, see, drop · To what, where: thunder, red shoes, feet

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. 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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 ran	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thunder	det
10	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dropped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dropped	cc
13	down	down	ADV	_	14 dropped	advmod
14	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shoes	det
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 shoes	amod
17	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dropped	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 feet	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 feet	nmod:poss
20	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dropped	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	past	the little boy			then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	the little boy not said here	the thunder				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus
3	drop	past	the little boy not said here	the red shoes	boy's feet		down property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme at foot=Destination

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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