English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 59
Then the father ran out and down fell the chain about his neck.
Who acts: father · What happens: run out, fall · To what, where: chain
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 (father), 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 | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fell | cc |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 fell | advmod |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chain | det |
| 10 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 neck | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 neck | nmod:poss |
| 13 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run out | past | the father | then | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the father not said here | the chain | about father's neck; down property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient chain=Result |
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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