The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 38
The sight and the sound struck terror into the king, and, turning his horse, he fled at top speed, thinking that a regiment of yelling giants was upon him; and all his force followed him as fast as they might go.
Who acts: sight, regiment, force, hoofs · What happens: strike, turn, flee, think, yell, be · To what, where: terror, horse, top speed, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, regiment, force, hoofs), 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 sight | det |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sound | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sound | det |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sight | conj |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turning | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turning | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turning | punct |
| 14 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 struck | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turning | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fled | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fled | nsubj |
| 19 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 struck | parataxis |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 speed | case |
| 21 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 speed | amod |
| 22 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fled | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thinking | punct |
| 24 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 fled | advcl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 him | mark |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 regiment | det |
| 27 | regiment | regiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 him | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 giants | case |
| 29 | yelling | yell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 giants | amod |
| 30 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 regiment | nmod |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 him | cop |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thinking | ccomp |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 followed | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 followed | cc |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 force | det:predet |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 force | nmod:poss |
| 38 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 followed | nsubj |
| 39 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 struck | parataxis |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 followed | obj |
| 41 | as | as | ADV | _ | 42 fast | advmod |
| 42 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 followed | advmod |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 go | mark |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 go | nsubj |
| 45 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 go | aux |
| 46 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 fast | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the sight and the sound | terror | into the king result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent terror=Patient into king=Result | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund | the sight and the sound not said here | king's horse | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme horse=Result | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | sight | top speed | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | sight not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | yell speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | a regiment of yelling giants | upon king | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | follow | past | king's force | king | fast property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 8 | go | might | hoofs = hoof | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 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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