The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 92

I had not gone in far until I heard a foot coming towards me with a quick pace, and although naturally bold and daring, yet, thinking of the deceased bishop and the crime I was engaged in, I lost courage, and ran towards the entrance of the vault.

Who acts: I, foot · What happens: not go in, hear, come, dare, think, decease · To what, where: foot, I, courage, entrance

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, foot), 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	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 heard	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 foot	det
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
12	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 foot	acl
13	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 coming	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 pace	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pace	det
17	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pace	amod
18	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coming	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bold	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bold	cc
21	although	although	SCONJ	_	23 bold	mark
22	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	23 bold	advmod
23	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 daring	cc
25	daring	dare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 bold	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lost	punct
27	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	43 lost	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thinking	punct
29	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 lost	ccomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 bishop	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bishop	det
32	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 bishop	amod
33	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 thinking	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 crime	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 crime	det
36	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bishop	conj
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 engaged	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 engaged	aux:pass
39	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 bishop	acl:relcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	39 engaged	compound:prt
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thinking	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 lost	nsubj
43	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
44	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lost	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 ran	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 ran	cc
47	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 lost	conj
48	towards	towards	ADP	_	50 entrance	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 entrance	det
50	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 ran	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 vault	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 vault	det
53	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 entrance	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go in	past · perfect	I			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	I	a foot			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus
3	come	gerund	a foot not said here			towards me; with a quick pace	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards i=Initial_Location
4	dare	gerund	I not said here				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	gerund	I not said here			of the deceased bishop and the crime	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	decease	participle					vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	engage in	past · passive		I			vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
8	lose	past	I	courage			tree rules
9	run	past	I not said here		the entrance of the vault		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards entrance=Destination

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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