The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 73
But as soon as they saw him they set up cries of horror and ran away.
Who acts: children, horror · What happens: see, set up, run away, cry · To what, where: Carrier, cries
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, horror), 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 | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 set | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 soon | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | nsubj |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 set | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 horror | case |
| 13 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cries | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 ran | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | children = child | Carrier | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | set up | past | children = child | cries of horror | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient cry=Result | |||
| 3 | run away | past | children = child not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cry | horror | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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