The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 89
All this and more rushed into the minds of the two young men as they saw the flash of their swords in the moonlight.
Who acts: robbers, swords · What happens: rush, see, mind, flash · To what, where: this, minds, flash, two young 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 (robbers, swords), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 this | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 rushed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rushed | cc |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 rushed | advmod |
| 5 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 minds | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 minds | det |
| 8 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rushed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 men | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 men | nummod |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 minds | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 saw | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rushed | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flash | det |
| 18 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 swords | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 swords | nmod:poss |
| 21 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flash | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 moonlight | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 moonlight | det |
| 24 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swords | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | participle · passive | this | the minds of the two young men | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into mind=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see | past | robbers = robber | the flash of robbers's swords in the moonlight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flash=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mind | the two young men | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | flash | robbers's swords in the moonlight | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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 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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