The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 69

So she began to walk as fast as she could, but the forest was so large and the sun was so hot that she nearly died of heat and terror and fatigue; look which way she would there seemed to be no end to the forest, and she was so frightened that she fancied every minute that she heard the King running after her to kill her.

Who acts: Miranda, forest, sun, end · What happens: begin, walk, be, die, look, seem · To what, where: way, King, Miranda

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miranda, forest, sun, end), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 walk	mark
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 walk	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 could	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 could	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fast	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 large	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 large	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 large	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 large	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 large	advmod
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 began	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hot	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hot	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hot	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 hot	advmod
23	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 large	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 died	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 died	nsubj
26	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	27 died	advmod
27	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hot	advcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 heat	case
29	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 died	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 terror	cc
31	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heat	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fatigue	cc
33	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heat	conj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 look	punct
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 large	conj
36	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	37 way	det
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 look	obj
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 seemed	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 seemed	aux
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 seemed	advmod
41	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 way	acl:relcl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 be	mark
43	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 seemed	xcomp
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 end	det
45	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 be	nsubj
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 forest	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 forest	det
48	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 end	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 frightened	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 frightened	cc
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 frightened	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 frightened	cop
53	so	so	ADV	_	54 frightened	advmod
54	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 began	parataxis
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 fancied	mark
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 fancied	nsubj
57	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 frightened	advcl
58	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	59 minute	det
59	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 fancied	obj
60	that	that	SCONJ	_	62 heard	mark
61	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 heard	nsubj
62	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 fancied	advcl
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 King	det
64	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 heard	obj
65	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	62 heard	advcl
66	after	after	ADP	_	67 her	case
67	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 running	obl
68	to	to	PART	_	69 kill	mark
69	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 running	advcl
70	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 kill	obj
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Miranda					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	walk	to-infinitive	Miranda not said here				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the forest				large property	tree rules
4	is	past	the sun				hot property	tree rules
5	die	past	Miranda				of heat and terror and fatigue; nearly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of heat=Causer
6	look	infinitive	the forest not said here	which way				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute
7	seem	would	Miranda	which way not said here	there			tree rules
8	be	to-infinitive	no end to the forest					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	past	Miranda				frightened property	tree rules
10	fancy	past	Miranda			minute		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
11	hear	past	Miranda	the King				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus
12	run	gerund	Miranda not said here			after Miranda		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	kill	to-infinitive	Miranda not said here	Miranda				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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