The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 53

At the blast of his horn the long nose of the old woman appeared at the grating, but the moment she caught sight of his face, she nearly fainted from fright, as she thought it was the ghost of the youth whose bones were lying in the dungeon of the castle.

Who acts: long nose, moment, nose, sight, bones · What happens: appear, catch, faint, think, be, lie · To what, where: blast, sight, ghost, dungeon, horn, face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long nose, moment, nose, sight), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 blast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 blast	det
3	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 appeared	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 horn	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horn	nmod:poss
6	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blast	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nose	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nose	amod
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 appeared	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 woman	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nose	nmod
14	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 grating	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grating	det
17	grating	grating	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 appeared	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 caught	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 caught	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 moment	det
21	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caught	nsubj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 caught	nsubj
23	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 appeared	conj
24	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caught	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 face	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 face	nmod:poss
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sight	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fainted	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fainted	nsubj
30	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	31 fainted	advmod
31	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 appeared	parataxis
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 fright	case
33	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fainted	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 thought	punct
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 thought	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 thought	nsubj
37	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fainted	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 ghost	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 ghost	cop
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ghost	det
41	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 thought	ccomp
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 youth	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 youth	det
44	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ghost	nmod
45	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	46 bones	nmod:poss
46	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 lying	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 lying	aux
48	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 youth	acl:relcl
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 dungeon	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 dungeon	det
51	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 lying	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 castle	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 castle	det
54	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 dungeon	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the long nose of the old woman		the blast of man's horn	at the grating	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at blast=Location
2	catch	past	the moment	sight of man's face			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
3	faint	past	nose			from fright; nearly property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from fright=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	nose				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	sight	the ghost		of the youth	tree rules
6	lie	past · progressive	bones		the dungeon of the castle		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dungeon=Location
7	blast			man's horn			nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient
8	sight			man's face			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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