More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 147

On seeing this strange sight approaching towards them at such a speed they were seized with terror, and cried out to one another, "There comes Johnny Gloke that killed the two giants with the gallows on his horse's neck to hang us all."

Who acts: speed, Johnny · What happens: see, approach, seize, cry out, come, kill · To what, where: strange sight, speed, rebels, one, two giants, neck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (speed, Johnny), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 seeing	mark
2	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 cried	advcl
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 sight	det
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sight	amod
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seeing	obj
6	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 seeing	conj
7	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 approaching	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 speed	case
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 speed	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 speed	det
12	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 approaching	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seized	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seized	aux:pass
15	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 speed	acl:relcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 terror	case
17	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seized	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 cried	compound:prt
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 one	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 cried	obl
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 one	fixed
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 comes	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 comes	punct
27	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 comes	expl
28	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 cried	conj
29	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 killed	nsubj
30	Gloke	Gloke	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Johnny	flat
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 killed	nsubj
32	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 comes	ccomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 giants	det
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 giants	nummod
35	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 killed	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 gallows	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 gallows	det
38	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 killed	obl
39	on	on	ADP	_	43 neck	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 horse	nmod:poss
41	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 neck	nmod:poss
42	's	's	PART	_	41 horse	case
43	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 killed	obl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 hang	mark
45	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 killed	advcl
46	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 hang	obj
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 us	nmod:unmarked
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 comes	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		this strange sight				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
2	approach	gerund				such speed	towards rebels = rebel	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial_Location
3	seize	past · passive	such speed not said here	rebels = rebel			with terror	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	cry out speech: express	past			one			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient
5	come in a quote	present				there		tree rules
6	kill in a quote	past	Johnny	the two giants		Johnny's horse's neck	with the gallows	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent giant=Patient with gallows=Instrument
7	hang in a quote	to-infinitive	Johnny not said here	us				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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