The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 95

For an instant they stood watching as if they were frozen, then they turned and ran with all their might, the man with the Bunyip running faster than all.

Who acts: tops, Bunyip · What happens: stand, watch, freeze, turn, run · To what, where: tops

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tops, Bunyip), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stood	xcomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 frozen	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 frozen	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 frozen	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frozen	aux:pass
11	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 watching	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turned	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 turned	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 turned	nsubj
15	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ran	cc
17	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 turned	conj
18	with	with	SCONJ	_	24 man	mark
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 man	det:predet
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 man	nmod:poss
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 man	aux
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 man	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ran	ccomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 Bunyip	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Bunyip	det
27	Bunyip	bunyip	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	nmod
28	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 Bunyip	acl
29	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 running	advmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 faster	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	tops = top			for a instant	vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	watch	gerund	tops = top not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	freeze	past · passive		tops = top			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
4	turn	past	tops = top		then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	run	past	tops = top not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	run	gerund	the Bunyip not said here			fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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