The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 13

They came so suddenly that no one knew of it, and if they had, Blauvor had eaten most of the strong men; and others, fearful of something they could not tell what, had secretly left the place.

Who acts: Sigurd, one, Blauvor · What happens: come, know, have, eat, not tell, leave · To what, where: most, others · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd, one, Blauvor), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 suddenly	advmod
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 knew	mark
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knew	nsubj
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eaten	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 eaten	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 eaten	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
17	Blauvor	Blauvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 eaten	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 eaten	aux
19	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
20	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 eaten	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 men	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 men	det
23	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 men	amod
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 most	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 left	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 others	cc
27	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 left	nsubj:pass
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fearful	punct
29	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 others	amod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 something	case
31	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 fearful	obl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 tell	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 tell	advmod
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 something	acl:relcl
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 tell	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 others	punct
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 left	aux
39	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	40 left	advmod
40	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	parataxis
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 place	det
42	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 left	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Sigurd		suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	no one		of town	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	Sigurd			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	eat	past · perfect	Blauvor	most of the strong men		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient
5	not tell speech: assert	could	Sigurd			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
6	leave	past · perfect · passive		others	secretly property	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme place=Attribute

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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