The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 233

Beasts of prey came running at us from all parts of the world, and all but tore us utterly to pieces.’

Who acts: Beasts, all · What happens: come, run, tore · To what, where: parts, us

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beasts, all), 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	Beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 prey	case
3	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Beasts	nmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 running	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 parts	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 parts	det
10	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 running	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parts	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tore	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tore	cc
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 tore	nsubj
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 all	cc
18	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tore	obj
20	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	18 tore	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 pieces	case
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tore	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Beasts of prey				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	gerund	Beasts of prey not said here		all parts of the world	at us	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at we=Trajectory
3	tore	past	all	us		to pieces; utterly property	tree 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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