The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 116

They were so stiff and hard that he nearly shrieked every step he took, and at last he sank down where he was, and actually began to cry.

Who acts: Stories, panther · What happens: be, shriek, take, sink down, begin, cry · To what, where: step, last

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stories, panther), 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	4 stiff	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stiff	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 stiff	advmod
4	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hard	cc
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stiff	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 shrieked	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shrieked	nsubj
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	10 shrieked	advmod
10	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hard	advcl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 step	det
12	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shrieked	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 step	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sank	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sank	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sank	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sank	nsubj
20	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stiff	parataxis
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 sank	compound:prt
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 was	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 was	nsubj
24	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sank	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
27	actually	actually	ADV	_	28 began	advmod
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stiff	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 cry	mark
30	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stiff	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Stories = story			stiff property	tree rules
2	be		Stories = story not said here				tree rules
3	shriek	past	panther	every step		nearly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
4	take	past	panther	every step not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme
5	sink down	past	panther		last		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	be	past	panther				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	begin	past				actually property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	cry speech: express	to-infinitive					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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