The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 94
Being in great fear and not knowing how to pass, I fired a pistol at him, and he immediately fell across the entrance.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: be, not know, pass, fire, fall · To what, where: great fear, pistol, 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, man), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fear | cop |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 fear | case |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fear | amod |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fired | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 knowing | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 knowing | advmod |
| 7 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fear | conj |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 pass | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pass | mark |
| 10 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knowing | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fear | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 fired | nsubj |
| 13 | fired | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pistol | det |
| 15 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fired | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fired | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 22 fell | advmod |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fired | conj |
| 23 | across | across | ADP | _ | 25 entrance | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 entrance | det |
| 25 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | great fear | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | fire | past | I | a pistol | at man | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pistol=Theme at he=Destination | |||
| 5 | fall | past | man | the entrance | immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across entrance=Initial_Location |
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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