The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 81

The people turned round and saw the black figure coming, and thought it was the devil himself, who wanted to get hold of the carpenter, so they threw down the coffin and took to their heels.

Who acts: people, black figure, figure, devil · What happens: turn round, see, come, think, be, want · To what, where: black figure, devil, hold, coffin, carpenter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, black figure, figure, devil), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 saw	cc
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 figure	det
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 figure	amod
9	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
10	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 figure	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 devil	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 devil	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 devil	det
17	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	ccomp
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	17 devil	nmod:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wanted	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 wanted	nsubj
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 devil	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wanted	xcomp
24	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 carpenter	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 carpenter	det
27	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hold	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 threw	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 threw	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 threw	nsubj
31	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	parataxis
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 threw	compound:prt
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 coffin	det
34	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 threw	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 took	cc
36	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 threw	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 heels	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 heels	nmod:poss
39	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 took	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn round	past	the people		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	the people not said here	the black figure		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus
3	come	gerund	the black figure not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	the people not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	figure	the devil	devil nmod:unmarked	tree rules
6	want	past	the devil			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the devil not said here	hold of the carpenter		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
8	throw down	past	people	the coffin		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme
9	take	past	people not said here		to people's heels result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result
10	hold			the carpenter		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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