The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 39

This Tiidu promised, and hastened away as if he had a mad bull behind him, so afraid was he that the man should begin to eat an apple at once.

Who acts: Tiidu, man · What happens: promise, hasten away, have, be, begin, eat · To what, where: mad bull, bull, apple

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, man), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Tiidu	det
2	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hastened	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hastened	cc
6	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 promised	xcomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 hastened	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hastened	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bull	det
13	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bull	amod
14	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bull	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 afraid	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 afraid	advmod
19	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 promised	conj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 he	cop
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 afraid	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 begin	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 begin	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 begin	aux
26	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 afraid	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 begin	xcomp
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 apple	det
30	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 eat	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	this Tiidu			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hasten away not said to happen	participle	this Tiidu not said here		away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	have	past	Tiidu	a mad bull	behind bull	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Patient
4	is a	past		bull		tree rules
5	begin	should	the man			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	eat	to-infinitive	the man not said here	a apple		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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