The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 18

The idiot ventured to peep out, and found to his relief that the enchantments seemed to have ended, though a thrill of horror shot through him as he noticed the skeletons of men scattered over the plain, beside the skeletons of their horses.

Who acts: idiot, enchantments, thrill · What happens: venture, peep out, find, seem, end, shoot · To what, where: relief, skeletons, men, plain, horror

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idiot, enchantments, thrill), 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 idiot	det
2	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ventured	nsubj
3	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 peep	mark
5	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ventured	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 peep	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 found	cc
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ventured	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 relief	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 relief	nmod:poss
12	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 seemed	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 enchantments	det
15	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 relief	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	19 ended	mark
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 ended	aux
19	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 seemed	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shot	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 shot	mark
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thrill	det
23	thrill	thrill	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shot	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 horror	case
25	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thrill	nmod
26	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	conj
27	through	through	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shot	obl
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 noticed	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 noticed	nsubj
31	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shot	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 skeletons	det
33	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 noticed	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 men	case
35	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 skeletons	nmod
36	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 men	acl
37	over	over	ADP	_	39 plain	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 plain	det
39	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 scattered	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 skeletons	punct
41	beside	beside	ADP	_	43 skeletons	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 skeletons	det
43	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 noticed	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 horses	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 horses	nmod:poss
46	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 skeletons	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ventured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	venture	past	the idiot				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	peep out	to-infinitive	the idiot not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	past				to idiot's relief	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	seem	past	the enchantments	idiot's relief not said here			tree rules
5	end	to-infinitive · perfect	the enchantments not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	shoot	past	a thrill of horror			through idiot	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through he=Destination
7	notice	past	thrill	the skeletons of men	the skeletons of skeletons's horses		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer skeleton=Stimulus
8	scatter	participle		men not said here	the plain		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over plain=Destination
9	thrill			horror			nom thrill «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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