The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 90
Suddenly--he could not have told why--a nameless fear seized upon him, and he fled away from the shore as if for his life.
Who acts: stumble, nameless fear · What happens: not tell, seize, flee away · To what, where: shore · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (stumble, nameless fear), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 told | advmod |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 told | advmod |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | aux |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 told | advmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 seized | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fear | det |
| 11 | nameless | nameless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fear | amod |
| 12 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | nsubj |
| 13 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | parataxis |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seized | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fled | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fled | nsubj |
| 19 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seized | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 fled | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 shore | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shore | det |
| 23 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fled | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 life | mark |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fled | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | could · perfect | stumble | suddenly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | a nameless fear | upon stumble | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | flee away | past | stumble | the shore | as stumble's life; away property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from shore=Initial_Location |
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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