The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 101

But when he had thus sent the two of them to their final rest, and was again about to sit down at the fire, out of every nook and corner came forth black cats and black dogs with fiery chains in such swarms that he couldn’t possibly get away from them.

Who acts: friend, nook · What happens: send, be, come, not get away · To what, where: two, final rest, fire, black cats, such swarms

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, nook), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 sent	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 sent	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	aux
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 sent	advmod
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 two	det
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sent	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 two	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 rest	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 rest	nmod:poss
13	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rest	amod
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sit	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sit	cop
18	again	again	ADV	_	19 about	advmod
19	about	about	ADV	_	21 sit	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sit	mark
21	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sent	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 sit	compound:prt
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 fire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sit	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 nook	punct
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 nook	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 nook	case
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 nook	det
30	nook	nook	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 corner	cc
32	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nook	conj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sit	parataxis
34	forth	forth	ADV	_	33 came	advmod
35	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 cats	amod
36	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 came	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 dogs	cc
38	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 dogs	amod
39	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 cats	conj
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 chains	case
41	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 chains	amod
42	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 dogs	nmod
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 swarms	case
44	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 swarms	amod
45	swarms	swarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 chains	nmod
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 get	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 get	nsubj
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 get	aux
49	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 get	advmod
50	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	51 get	advmod
51	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 swarms	acl
52	away	away	ADV	_	51 get	advmod
53	from	from	ADP	_	54 them	case
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 away	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect	friend	the two of cards	cards's final rest	thus property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent two=Theme to rest=Destination
2	is	past	friend not said here		the fire	about, sit property	tree rules
3	come	past	every nook and corner	black cats and black dogs with fiery chains in such swarms		forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme
4	not get away	could	friend	such swarms not said here		away, possibly property	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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