The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 10

But before Kisa could answer, Ingibjorg’s attendants arrived breathless on the scene, and were so horrified at the sight of a strange cat, that Kisa plunged into the bushes and went back to the forest.

Who acts: Kisa, attendants · What happens: answer, arrive, horrify, plunge, go back, sight · To what, where: scene, sight, bushes, strange cat

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kisa, attendants), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 arrived	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 answer	mark
3	Kisa	Kisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answer	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	aux
5	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 arrived	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct
7	Ingibjorg	Ingibjorg	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 attendants	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Ingibjorg	case
9	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 arrived	nsubj
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	breathless	breathless	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 arrived	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 scene	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 scene	det
14	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 horrified	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 horrified	cc
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 horrified	aux:pass
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 horrified	advmod
19	horrified	horrify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 arrived	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 sight	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sight	det
22	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 horrified	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 cat	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cat	det
25	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cat	amod
26	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sight	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 plunged	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 plunged	mark
29	Kisa	Kisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 plunged	nsubj
30	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 horrified	parataxis
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 bushes	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bushes	det
33	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 plunged	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 went	cc
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 plunged	conj
36	back	back	ADV	_	35 went	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 forest	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 forest	det
39	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 went	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	could	Kisa				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	arrive	past	Ingibjorg's attendants		the scene	breathless property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	horrify	past · passive	Ingibjorg's attendants not said here		the sight of a strange cat		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	plunge	past	Kisa		the bushes		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bush=Initial_Location
5	go back	past	Kisa not said here			to the forest result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result
6	sight			a strange cat			nom sight «cognition 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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