The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 114

Shuddering with horror at his discovery he turned back into the village street, hoping to meet some one who could tell him of the days of old.

Who acts: man, one · What happens: shudder, turn back, hope, meet, tell, discover · To what, where: village street, one, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, one), 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	Shuddering	shudder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 turned	csubj
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 horror	case
3	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shuddering	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 discovery	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 discovery	nmod:poss
6	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shuddering	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 turned	nsubj
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 turned	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 street	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 street	det
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 street	compound
13	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hoping	punct
15	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 turned	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 meet	mark
17	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hoping	xcomp
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 meet	obj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 tell	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 one	acl:relcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 days	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 days	det
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tell	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 old	case
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 days	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shudder	gerund						with horror; at man's discovery	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at discovery=Stimulus
2	turn back	past	man			the village street			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	hope	gerund	man not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	meet not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	some one					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent
5	tell speech: assert	could	some one		man		day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	discover		man						nom discovery «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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