Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 45

As soon as he tossed up the ashes and ran off, we made after him, and followed him till nightfall, when he went into a glen.

Who acts: hare, we · What happens: toss up, run off, make, follow, go · To what, where: ashes, hare, glen

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, we), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 tossed	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 tossed	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tossed	nsubj
5	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 tossed	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ashes	det
8	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tossed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tossed	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 ran	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tossed	conj
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 followed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 followed	cc
19	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tossed	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 followed	obj
21	till	till	ADP	_	22 nightfall	case
22	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 followed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 went	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tossed	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 glen	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 glen	det
29	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss up	past	hare	the ashes			soon property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Patient
2	run off	past	hare not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	past	we			after hare		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	follow	past	hare not said here	hare		till nightfall		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	go	past	hare		a glen			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into glen=Initial_Location

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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