The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 135

The men, when they heard the tailor saying these words, were so terrified that they fled as if pursued by a wild army, and didn’t dare go near him again.

Who acts: trousers, tailor, men · What happens: hear, say, be, flee, pursue, not dare · To what, where: tailor, words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trousers, tailor, men), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 terrified	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 heard	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 men	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tailor	det
8	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
9	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 tailor	acl
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 words	det
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saying	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 terrified	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 terrified	advmod
15	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 fled	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fled	nsubj
18	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 terrified	advcl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 pursued	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 pursued	mark
21	pursued	pursue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 fled	xcomp
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 army	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 army	det
24	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 army	amod
25	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pursued	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dare	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dare	cc
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dare	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 dare	advmod
30	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 terrified	conj
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 dare	xcomp
32	near	near	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 go	obl
34	again	again	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	trousers	the tailor			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tailor=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the tailor not said here	this words			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	is	past	the men			terrified property	tree rules
4	flee	past	trousers				tree rules
5	pursue a condition, not said to happen	participle	trousers not said here			by a wild army	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by army=Trajectory
6	not dare	past · do-support	the men not said here				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not go	infinitive	the men not said here		again	near man	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near he=Location

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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