More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 31

He was not long before he came to the oldest brother's house; and glad enough he was to see it, for the sight and the noise of all those things that were after him nearly frightened him to death.

Who acts: boy, things · What happens: not be, come, see, be, frighten, noise · To what, where: house, boy

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, things), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 came	advmod
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	13 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brother	det
10	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 brother	amod
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 brother	case
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 glad	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 glad	cc
16	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 came	parataxis
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 glad	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 glad	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 see	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sight	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 sight	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sight	det
26	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 noise	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 noise	det
29	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sight	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 things	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 things	det:predet
32	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 things	det
33	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 noise	nmod
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 frightened	obj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 him	cop
36	after	after	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 frightened	nsubj:pass
38	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	39 frightened	advmod
39	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 things	acl:relcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 frightened	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 death	case
42	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 frightened	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	boy				long property	tree rules
2	come	past	boy		the oldest brother's house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
3	see	past	boy	house			for the sight and the noise of all things	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	is	past				after boy		tree rules
5	frighten	past · passive		boy			to death; nearly property	tree rules
6	noise		all things					nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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