The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 31

And in a moment such a fierce creature stood before them, that all the guests rushed out of the hall, treading each other underfoot in their fright.

Who acts: fierce creature, guests · What happens: stand, rush out, tread, fright · To what, where: hall, other underfoot, fright

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fierce creature, guests), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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