The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 23

From words they came to blows, and the women, frightened at the disturbance, pelted Tephany with insulting names.

Who acts: words, women · What happens: come, frighten, pelt · To what, where: words, women, disturbance, Tephany

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, women), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 words	case
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 blows	case
6	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pelted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pelted	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 women	det
10	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pelted	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 frightened	punct
12	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 women	acl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 disturbance	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 disturbance	det
15	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 frightened	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 women	punct
17	pelted	pelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
18	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 pelted	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 names	case
20	insulting	insulting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 names	amod
21	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pelted	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	words = word			words	to blows	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location to blow=Destination
2	frighten	participle		the women not said here		the disturbance		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	pelt	past	the women		Tephany		with insulting names	vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tephany=Destination with name=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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