The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 144

Niels was startled and rather scared at first, but he comforted himself with the thought that the giants were a good way off, and that if they came nearer he could easily hide among the bushes.

Who acts: Rasmus, giants · What happens: startle, comfort, be, come, hide · To what, where: Niels, Rasmus, good way, bushes

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasmus, giants), 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	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 startled	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 startled	aux:pass
3	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scared	cc
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 startled	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 scared	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 comforted	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 comforted	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 comforted	nsubj
12	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 startled	conj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 comforted	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 thought	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thought	det
16	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comforted	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 way	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 giants	det
19	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 way	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 way	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thought	nmod:unmarked
24	off	off	ADV	_	23 way	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 hide	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hide	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 came	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 came	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 hide	advcl
31	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 came	xcomp
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hide	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 hide	aux
34	easily	easily	ADV	_	35 hide	advmod
35	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 startled	parataxis
36	among	among	ADP	_	38 bushes	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bushes	det
38	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 hide	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 startled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	startle	past · passive		Niels			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	comfort	past	Rasmus	Rasmus		with the thought	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
3	is a	past	the giants	a good way		off property	tree rules
4	come a condition, not said to happen	past	Giants = giant			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hide	could	Rasmus		the bushes	easily property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among bush=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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