The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 9

The fierce beasts bounded towards him, roaring loudly, and would fain have eaten him, but quickly Manus stooped and spread the cloth upon the ground.

Who acts: fierce beasts, Manus · What happens: bound, roar, fain, eat, stoop, spread · To what, where: creature, cloth, ground

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fierce beasts, Manus), 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	3 beasts	det
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beasts	amod
3	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bounded	nsubj
4	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bounded	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 roaring	punct
8	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bounded	advcl
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	8 roaring	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fain	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fain	cc
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fain	aux
13	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bounded	conj
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 eaten	aux
15	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 fain	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eaten	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stooped	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 stooped	cc
19	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	21 stooped	advmod
20	Manus	Manus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 stooped	nsubj
21	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bounded	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 spread	cc
23	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stooped	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cloth	det
25	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spread	obj
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spread	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bound	past	the fierce beasts			towards creature	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination
2	roar	gerund	the fierce beasts not said here			loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fain	would	the fierce beasts not said here				tree rules
4	eat	infinitive · perfect	the fierce beasts not said here	creature			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	stoop	past	Manus			quickly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	spread	past	Manus not said here	the cloth	the ground		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme upon ground=Destination

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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