The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 86

They had not gone very far, when, riding across a mountain, they caught a glimpse of several armed men hiding amongst some trees in their path, and remembered suddenly some talk they had heard of a band of twelve robbers who lay in wait for rich travellers.

Who acts: adventures, several armed men, twelve robbers · What happens: not go, ride, catch, hide, remember, hear · To what, where: mountain, glimpse, path, talk, wait, several armed men

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 (adventures, several armed men, twelve robbers), 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 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 riding	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 riding	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 riding	punct
10	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gone	advcl
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 mountain	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mountain	det
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 riding	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 caught	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 caught	nsubj
16	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 glimpse	det
18	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 caught	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 men	case
20	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	amod
21	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	amod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 glimpse	nmod
23	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 men	acl
24	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	26 trees	case
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 trees	det
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hiding	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 path	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 path	nmod:poss
29	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hiding	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 remembered	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 remembered	cc
32	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 caught	conj
33	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	32 remembered	advmod
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 talk	det
35	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 remembered	obj
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 heard	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 heard	aux
38	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 talk	acl:relcl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 band	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 band	det
41	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 heard	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 robbers	case
43	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 robbers	nummod
44	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 band	nmod
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 lay	nsubj
46	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 robbers	acl:relcl
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 wait	case
48	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 lay	obl
49	for	for	ADP	_	51 travellers	case
50	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 travellers	amod
51	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 lay	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	adventures = adventure			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ride	gerund	adventures = adventure not said here		a mountain		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across mountain=Trajectory
3	catch	past	adventures = adventure	a glimpse of several armed men			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme
4	hide	gerund	several armed men not said here		adventures's path	amongst some trees	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst tree=Location
5	remember	past	adventures = adventure not said here	some talk		suddenly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent talk=Theme
6	hear	past · perfect	adventures = adventure	some talk not said here		of a band of twelve robbers	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus
7	lay	present	twelve robbers		wait	for rich travellers	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for traveller=Beneficiary
8	glimpse			several armed men			nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient

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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