The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 70

Then off he went, running hard, and when the mourners saw a man coming towards them with nothing on but his nightshirt, they forgot in their fright what they were there for, and fled to hide themselves.

Who acts: man, mourners · What happens: go, run, see, come, forget, be · To what, where: man, fright, mourners

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, mourners), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
2	off	off	ADP	_	4 went	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 running	punct
6	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 running	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 saw	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mourners	det
12	mourners	mourner	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
16	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 man	acl
17	towards	towards	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 coming	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 nothing	case
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 coming	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 nightshirt	case
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 nightshirt	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 nightshirt	nmod:poss
24	nightshirt	nightshirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nothing	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 forgot	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 forgot	nsubj
27	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 fright	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 fright	nmod:poss
30	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 forgot	obl
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 there	nsubj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 there	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 there	cop
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 forgot	parataxis
35	for	for	ADP	_	27 forgot	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fled	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fled	cc
38	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 hide	mark
40	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 fled	xcomp
41	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 hide	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	man			then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	gerund	man not said here				hard property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	the mourners	a man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	come	gerund	a man not said here				towards mourners = mourner; with nothing	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial_Location
5	forget	past	mourners = mourner		mourners's fright			tree rules
6	is	past					there property	tree rules
7	flee	past	man not said here					tree rules
8	hide	to-infinitive	man not said here	mourners = mourner				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
9	fright		mourners = mourner					nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=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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