The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 26

At this all the dancers grew so frightened that they burst through the ring of their captors, and ran back to the village, the turtles following—very slowly.

Who acts: dancers, turtles · What happens: grow, burst, run back, follow · To what, where: this, ring

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dancers, turtles), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 grew	obl
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 dancers	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dancers	det
5	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 frightened	advmod
8	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	xcomp
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 burst	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 burst	nsubj
11	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 frightened	advcl
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 ring	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ring	det
14	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burst	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 captors	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 captors	nmod:poss
17	captors	captor	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ring	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ran	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ran	cc
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 ran	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 village	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 village	det
24	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ran	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 turtles	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 turtles	det
27	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 village	conj
28	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 turtles	acl
29	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 slowly	punct
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 slowly	advmod
31	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	28 following	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	all dancers	this	frightened property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at this=Location
2	burst	present	dancers = dancer	the ring of dancers's captors		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through ring=Location
3	run back	past	all dancers not said here		to the village and the turtles result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to village=Result
4	follow	gerund	the turtles not said here		slowly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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