The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 126

But what was my terror when I heard the giant groping among the bodies, and, fancying myself, cut the half of my hip off, and took it with him to be roasted.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, hear, grope, fancy, cut off, take · To what, where: terror, giant groping bodies, myself, half

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 terror	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 terror	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 terror	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 terror	nmod:poss
5	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 terror	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bodies	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bodies	amod
11	groping	grope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 bodies	amod
12	among	among	ADP	_	14 bodies	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bodies	det
14	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heard	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fancying	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fancying	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fancying	punct
18	fancying	fancy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 heard	conj
19	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 fancying	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cut	punct
21	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 fancying	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 half	det
23	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	21 cut	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 hip	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hip	nmod:poss
26	hip	hip	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 half	nmod
27	off	off	ADP	_	21 cut	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 took	cc
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	36 roasted	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 roasted	aux:pass
36	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 took	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 terror	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		my terror		tree rules
2	hear	past	I	the giant groping bodies		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus
3	grope	gerund				vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	fancy	gerund	I not said here	myself		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus
5	cut off	infinitive		the half of my hip		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector half=Eventuality
6	take	past	I not said here	half	with giant	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	roast	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»

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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