Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 62

The robbers were so terrified that they all sprang to their feet straightway and scampered off through the forest, forgetting all the booty of which they had robbed the merchantmen.

Who acts: robbers · What happens: be, sprang, scamper off, forget, rob · To what, where: forest, booty, robbers

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 robbers	det
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 terrified	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 terrified	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 terrified	advmod
5	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 sprang	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sprang	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 sprang	advmod
9	sprang	sprang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 terrified	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 feet	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feet	nmod:poss
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sprang	obl
13	straightway	straightway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sprang	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 scampered	cc
15	scampered	scamper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 terrified	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 scampered	compound:prt
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 forest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 forest	det
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scampered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 forgetting	punct
21	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 terrified	conj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 booty	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 booty	det
24	booty	booty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forgetting	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 robbed	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 robbed	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 robbed	aux
29	robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 booty	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 merchantmen	det
31	merchantmen	merchantman	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 robbed	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the robbers			terrified property	tree rules
2	sprang	present	robbers = robber			to robbers's feet; straightway property	tree rules
3	scamper off	participle	the robbers not said here		the forest		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
4	forget	gerund	the robbers not said here	all booty			tree rules
5	rob	past · perfect · passive		robbers = robber		of all booty	tree rules

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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