The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 93
And as he spoke two huge black cats sprang fiercely forward and sat down, one on each side of him, and gazed wildly at him with their fiery eyes.
Who acts: King · What happens: speak, spring, sit down, gaze · To what, where: two huge black cats · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sprang | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sprang | advcl |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 cats | nummod |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cats | amod |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cats | amod |
| 8 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spoke | obj |
| 9 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 11 forward | advmod |
| 11 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 9 sprang | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sat | cc |
| 13 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sprang | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 sat | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 sat | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 side | det |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 side | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gazed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gazed | cc |
| 24 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sprang | conj |
| 25 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 24 gazed | advmod |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gazed | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 eyes | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 eyes | amod |
| 31 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gazed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | King | two huge black cats | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spring | past | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sit down | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | gaze | past | at King; with cats's fiery eyes; wildly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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 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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