The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 82

Many times the father and brothers jumped up, thinking they heard her steps, but in the thick darkness they could scarcely see their own hands, nor could they tell where the river lay, nor where the mountain.

Who acts: Many times, brothers, river, maiden · What happens: jump up, think, hear, see, tell, lie · To what, where: steps, own hands, thick darkness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Many times, brothers, river, maiden), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 times	amod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 jumped	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 father	det
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 times	nmod:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 brothers	cc
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 times	conj
7	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 jumped	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thinking	punct
10	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 jumped	advcl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thinking	ccomp
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 steps	nmod:poss
14	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heard	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 see	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 darkness	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 darkness	det
19	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 darkness	amod
20	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 see	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 see	aux
23	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	24 see	advmod
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 jumped	conj
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hands	amod
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 see	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 tell	cc
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 jumped	parataxis
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 lay	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 river	det
35	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lay	nsubj
36	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 where	punct
38	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	39 where	cc
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 lay	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 mountain	det
41	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 where	nsubj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump up	past	Many times the father and brothers				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	gerund	Many times the father and brothers not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	hear	past	brothers = brother	maiden's steps			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus
4	see	could	brothers = brother	brothers's own hands	the thick darkness	scarcely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus
5	tell speech: assert	could	brothers = brother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	lie	past	the river				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	step		maiden				nom step «act transitive»: poss=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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