The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 14

The wolf came down the inside of the tree, slowly, slowly; Antoine felt turned to stone, so terrified was he, and hardly dared to breathe.

Who acts: wolf, Antoine · What happens: come down, feel, turn, be, dare, breathe · To what, where: inside, stone, Antoine

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, Antoine), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 inside	det
6	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inside	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slowly	punct
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slowly	punct
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	11 slowly	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 felt	punct
15	Antoine	Antoine	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 felt	nsubj
16	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
17	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 felt	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 stone	case
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 terrified	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 terrified	advmod
22	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 felt	conj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 he	cop
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 terrified	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dared	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dared	cc
27	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	28 dared	advmod
28	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 breathe	mark
30	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 dared	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come down	past	the wolf	the inside of the tree		down, slowly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	past	Antoine				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	turn	participle	Antoine not said here		stone		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory
4	is a	past		Antoine			tree rules
5	dare	past	the wolf not said here			hardly property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	breathe	to-infinitive	the wolf not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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