The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 18

At this sight the maiden was almost frightened to death, but with a great effort she recovered herself and ran home as fast as her legs would carry her, closely pursued by Eisenkopf.

Who acts: maiden, legs · What happens: frighten, recover, run, carry, pursue · To what, where: maiden, sight

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, legs), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 sight	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 sight	det
3	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frightened	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frightened	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frightened	aux:pass
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 frightened	advmod
8	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 death	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frightened	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 recovered	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 recovered	cc
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 effort	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 effort	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 effort	amod
16	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 recovered	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 recovered	nsubj
18	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frightened	parataxis
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 recovered	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 recovered	conj
22	home	home	ADV	_	21 ran	advmod
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 fast	advmod
24	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 ran	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 carry	mark
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 legs	nmod:poss
27	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 carry	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 carry	aux
29	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 fast	advcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 carry	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pursued	punct
32	closely	closely	ADV	_	33 pursued	advmod
33	pursued	pursue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 recovered	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 Eisenkopf	case
35	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 pursued	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the maiden	this sight	to death; almost property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	recover	past	maiden	maiden		with a great effort	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
3	run	past	maiden not said here			fast, home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	would	maiden's legs	maiden			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	pursue	participle	maiden not said here			by Eisenkopf; closely property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by eisenkopf=Trajectory

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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