The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 15

The animals were frightened, and began to neigh and kick, as if they were fighting together, and the noise became so great that even the eldest Stalo was awakened by it, and that was a thing which had never occurred before.

Who acts: animals, noise, that · What happens: frighten, begin, neigh, kick, fight, become · To what, where: animals, eldest Stalo, thing

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals, noise, that), 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 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	aux:pass
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 neigh	mark
9	neigh	neigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kick	cc
11	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 neigh	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fighting	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 fighting	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 fighting	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fighting	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fighting	aux
17	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 kick	conj
18	together	together	ADV	_	17 fighting	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 became	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 became	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 noise	det
22	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	nsubj
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 great	advmod
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 became	xcomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 awakened	mark
27	even	even	ADV	_	30 Stalo	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Stalo	det
29	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 Stalo	amod
30	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 awakened	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 awakened	aux:pass
32	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 great	advcl
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 awakened	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 thing	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 thing	cc
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 thing	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 thing	cop
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 thing	det
40	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	xcomp
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 occurred	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 occurred	aux
43	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	44 occurred	advmod
44	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 thing	acl:relcl
45	before	before	ADV	_	44 occurred	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the animals		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	begin	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	neigh	to-infinitive				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	kick	infinitive				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	fight a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	animals = animal		together property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	become	past	the noise		great property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	awaken	past · passive		the eldest Stalo	by noise	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
8	is a	past	that	a thing		tree rules
9	not occur	past · perfect · passive		a thing	before property	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: «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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