The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 94

You cannot imagine anything like the fright of the people in the serai, when they woke up and found a tiger--very battered but still a tiger--securely tethered amongst themselves and their beasts!

Who acts: You, peoples · What happens: not imagine, wake up, find, batter, tether, fright · To what, where: anything, tiger, people

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, peoples), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 imagine	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 imagine	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 imagine	advmod
4	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 imagine	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 fright	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fright	det
8	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 anything	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fright	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 serai	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 serai	det
14	serai	serai	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 people	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 woke	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 woke	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 woke	nsubj
18	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 imagine	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 woke	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 found	cc
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 woke	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tiger	det
23	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obj
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 battered	punct
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 battered	advmod
26	battered	batter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 woke	parataxis
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 tiger	cc
28	still	still	ADV	_	30 tiger	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tiger	det
30	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 battered	conj
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 tethered	punct
32	securely	securely	ADV	_	33 tethered	advmod
33	tethered	tether	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 battered	conj
34	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	35 themselves	case
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 tethered	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 beasts	cc
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 beasts	nmod:poss
38	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 themselves	conj
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not imagine	can	You	anything	like the fright of the people in the serai	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme
2	wake up	past	peoples = people			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	find	past	peoples = people not said here	a tiger		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Topic
4	batter	participle				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	tether	participle			amongst peoples = people; securely property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	fright			the people in the serai		nom fright «feeling 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 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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