More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 64

But the bannock was frightened when it heard about the ale, and turned and was off as hard as it could, and the smith after it, and cast the hammer.

Who acts: Bannock · What happens: frighten, hear, turn off, cast · To what, where: bannock, hammer

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 (Bannock), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 frightened	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bannock	det
3	bannock	bannock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	aux:pass
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	advcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 ale	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ale	det
11	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 turned	cc
14	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 off	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 off	cop
17	off	off	ADP	_	14 turned	compound:prt
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 hard	advmod
19	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 turned	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 could	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 could	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 hard	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 smith	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 smith	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 smith	det
26	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frightened	parataxis
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 smith	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cast	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cast	cc
31	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 frightened	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hammer	det
33	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cast	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the bannock		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	hear	past	Bannock		about the ale	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about ale=Stimulus
3	turn off	past			hard property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	cast	infinitive		the hammer		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Product

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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