The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 88

Night fell, and he was beginning to start at every sound, when suddenly a magician came running towards him, with a pack of wolves snapping at his heels.

Who acts: Night, boy, magician, wolves · What happens: fall, begin, start, come, run, snap · To what, where: sound, heels

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Night, boy, magician, wolves), 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	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 beginning	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 beginning	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 beginning	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 beginning	aux
7	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fell	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 start	mark
9	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 beginning	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 sound	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sound	det
12	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 start	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 suddenly	advmod
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 magician	det
17	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
19	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 came	advcl
20	towards	towards	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 running	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pack	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 pack	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pack	det
25	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 wolves	case
27	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pack	nmod
28	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 wolves	acl
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 heels	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heels	nmod:poss
31	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 snapping	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Night			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past · progressive	boy			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	start	to-infinitive	boy not said here	every sound		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	come	past	a magician		suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run	gerund	a magician not said here		towards boy	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination
6	snap	gerund	wolves not said here	boy's heels		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at heel=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: «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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