The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 30

Their sharp eyes soon discovered the form of a man crouching behind the bundles of sticks, and at first they felt a little frightened, and started as if they would run away.

Who acts: sharp eyes, man, eyes · What happens: discover, crouch, feel, frighten, start, run away · To what, where: form, bundles, little, man

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sharp eyes, man, eyes), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eyes	amod
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 discovered	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 discovered	advmod
5	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 form	det
7	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 discovered	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 man	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 form	nmod
11	crouching	crouch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 man	acl
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 bundles	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bundles	det
14	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 crouching	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 sticks	case
16	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bundles	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 felt	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 felt	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 first	case
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 felt	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 felt	nsubj
22	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 discovered	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 little	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 frightened	obl:unmarked
25	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 felt	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 started	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 started	cc
28	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 discovered	conj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 run	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 run	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 run	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 run	aux
33	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 started	advcl
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 run	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	discover	past	men's sharp eyes	the form of a man		soon property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Topic
2	crouch	gerund	a man not said here		the bundles of sticks		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind bundle=Location
3	feel	past	eyes = eye				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	frighten	participle	eyes = eye not said here	a little			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	start	past	men's sharp eyes not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	run away	would	eyes = eye			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	form			a man			nom form «communication 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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