The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 64
The giants were terrified at the apparition, and, fearful lest he should slay them, they all took to their heels as fast as they could.
Who acts: giants, tailor, bed · What happens: be, slay, take · To what, where: apparition, bed
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 (giants, tailor, bed), 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 giants | det |
| 2 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 terrified | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | cop |
| 4 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 apparition | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 apparition | det |
| 7 | apparition | apparition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 terrified | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fearful | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fearful | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fearful | punct |
| 11 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 terrified | conj |
| 12 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 15 slay | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 slay | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 slay | aux |
| 15 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fearful | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 slay | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 took | advmod |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 heels | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heels | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 took | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 fast | advmod |
| 25 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 took | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 could | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 could | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 fast | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the giants | the apparition | terrified property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | the giants not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | slay | should | tailor | bed | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | bed | to bed's heels result; fast property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result |
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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