The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 30

Every time he struck he killed some one or other, and none escaped but they who were not so frightened as to stand staring and gaping, and who saved themselves by flight.

Who acts: Schaibar, none, porters · What happens: strike, kill, escape, not be, stand, stare · To what, where: one, porters

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schaibar, none, porters), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 struck	nsubj
4	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 killed	nsubj
6	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	ccomp
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	det
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 killed	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 other	cc
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 escaped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 escaped	cc
13	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	14 escaped	nsubj
14	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 frightened	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 frightened	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 frightened	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 frightened	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 frightened	advmod
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 frightened	advmod
21	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 escaped	conj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 stand	mark
23	to	to	PART	_	24 stand	mark
24	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 frightened	ccomp
25	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 stand	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gaping	cc
27	gaping	gape	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 staring	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saved	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 saved	cc
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 saved	nsubj
31	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
32	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 saved	obj
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 flight	case
34	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saved	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	Schaibar		time		tree rules
2	kill	past	Schaibar	some one			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	escape	past	none				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	past	porters = porter			frightened property	tree rules
5	stand	to-infinitive	porters = porter not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stare	gerund	porters = porter not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	gape	gerund	porters = porter not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	save	past		porters = porter		by flight	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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