The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 74

Then on he bounded, uttering such dreadful roars that the horses were frightened and grew unmanageable, and he easily outstripped them, and soon reached the gates of the palace.

Who acts: plan · What happens: bound, utter, frighten, grow, outstrip, reach · To what, where: such dreadful roars, horses, gates

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bounded	advmod
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 bounded	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bounded	nsubj
4	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 uttering	punct
6	uttering	utter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bounded	advcl
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 roars	amod
8	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 roars	amod
9	roars	roar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 uttering	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 frightened	nsubj:pass
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horses	det
12	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 frightened	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 frightened	aux:pass
14	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 roars	acl:relcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 grew	cc
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 frightened	conj
17	unmanageable	unmanageable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grew	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 outstripped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 outstripped	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 outstripped	nsubj
21	easily	easily	ADV	_	22 outstripped	advmod
22	outstripped	outstrip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bounded	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 outstripped	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reached	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 reached	cc
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 reached	advmod
27	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bounded	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 gates	det
29	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 reached	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 palace	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 palace	det
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gates	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bound	past	plan		then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	utter speech: other	gerund	plan not said here	such dreadful roars			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent roar=Topic
3	frighten	past · passive		such dreadful roars			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	grow	past				unmanageable property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	outstrip	past	plan	horses = horse		easily property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
6	reach	past	plan not said here	the gates of the palace		soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=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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