The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 76

They fancied they heard on every side of them the houling of wolves coming to eat them up; they scarce dared to speak, or turn their heads.

Who acts: birds, wolves · What happens: fancy, hear, come, eat up, dare, speak · To what, where: houling, side, birds, heads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fancied	nsubj
2	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fancied	ccomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 side	det
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 side	nmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 houling	det
11	houling	houling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 wolves	case
13	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 houling	nmod
14	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 wolves	acl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 coming	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eat	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 eat	compound:prt
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 dared	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dared	nsubj:pass
21	scarce	scarce	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 dared	aux:pass
22	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fancied	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 speak	mark
24	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 dared	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 turn	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 turn	cc
27	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 dared	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 heads	nmod:poss
29	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 turn	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fancy	past	birds = bird			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hear	past	birds = bird	the houling of wolves	every side of ways	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer houling=Stimulus
3	come	gerund	wolves not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat up	to-infinitive	wolves not said here	birds = bird		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	dare	present · passive		birds = bird		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	speak speech: other	to-infinitive				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	turn	present		birds's heads		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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