The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 27

I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground.

Who acts: I, eyes · What happens: be, roar, run back, hurt, get, leap · To what, where: utmost astonishment, fright, some, falls, sides

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, eyes), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 astonishment	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 astonishment	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 astonishment	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 astonishment	det
5	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 astonishment	amod
6	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 roared	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 roared	cc
9	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 astonishment	parataxis
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 loud	advmod
11	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 roared	xcomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 ran	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ran	nsubj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 they	det
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 loud	advcl
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 ran	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 fright	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fright	det
19	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ran	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 hurt	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hurt	cc
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 hurt	nsubj:pass
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 some	nmod
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hurt	aux:pass
26	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 roared	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 falls	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 falls	det
29	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hurt	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 got	nsubj
31	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 falls	acl:relcl
32	by	by	SCONJ	_	33 leaping	mark
33	leaping	leap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 got	advcl
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 sides	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 sides	nmod:poss
36	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 leaping	obl
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 ground	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ground	det
39	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 leaping	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 astonishment	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		the utmost astonishment		tree rules
2	roar	past				loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run back	past	eyes = eye		a fright		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fright=Trajectory
4	hurt	past · passive		some		with the falls	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	get	past	eyes = eye	the falls not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fall=Stimulus
6	leap	gerund	eyes = eye not said here		my sides	upon the ground	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from side=Trajectory

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/27/