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The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 108

So at dusk over he got, but when he reached the other side he drew back in terror, for there, standing before him, was the old witch.

Who acts: husband · What happens: get, reach, draw back, stand, be · To what, where: other side, terror, old witch

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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

advmodcaseoblmarknsubjpunctccmarknsubjadvcldetamodobjnsubjconjadvmodcaseoblpunctcaseconjpunctadvclcaseoblpunctcopdetamodoblpunctrootSoADVatADPduskNOUNoverSCONJhePRONgotVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJwhenSCONJhePRONreachedVERBtheDETotherADJsideNOUNhePRONdrewVERBbackADVinADPterrorNOUN,PUNCTforADPthereADV,PUNCTstandingVERBbeforeADPhimPRON,PUNCTwasAUXtheDEToldADJwitchNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_6 gotadvmod
2atatADP_3 duskcase
3duskduskNOUNNumber=Sing6 gotobl
4overoverSCONJ_6 gotmark
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 gotnsubj
6gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7,,PUNCT_16 drewpunct
8butbutCCONJ_16 drewcc
9whenwhenSCONJ_11 reachedmark
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 reachednsubj
11reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 drewadvcl
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 sidedet
13otherotherADJDegree=Pos14 sideamod
14sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing11 reachedobj
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 drewnsubj
16drewdrawVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 gotconj
17backbackADV_16 drewadvmod
18ininADP_19 terrorcase
19terrorterrorNOUNNumber=Sing16 drewobl
20,,PUNCT_22 therepunct
21forforADP_22 therecase
22therethereADVPronType=Dem16 drewconj
23,,PUNCT_24 standingpunct
24standingstandVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 drewadvcl
25beforebeforeADP_26 himcase
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 standingobl
27,,PUNCT_31 witchpunct
28wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 witchcop
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 witchdet
30oldoldADJDegree=Pos31 witchamod
31witchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing6 gotobl
32..PUNCT_6 gotpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpasthusbandduskvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2reachpasthusbandthe other sidevn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme
3draw backpasthusbandterrorvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in terror=Destination
4standgerundhusband not said herebefore husbandvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
5is apastthe old witchtree rules

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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