The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 15

It is the nyamatsanes, and they will tear me in pieces,’ and indeed the cloud of dust was drawing near with amazing quickness, and the nyamatsanes almost felt as if they were already devouring him.

Who acts: hero, nyamatsanes, dust · What happens: be, tear, draw, feel, devour · To what, where: nyamatsanes, me, pieces, cloud, dust

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, nyamatsanes, dust), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nyamatsanes	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nyamatsanes	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nyamatsanes	det
4	nyamatsanes	nyamatsane	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tear	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tear	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tear	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tear	aux
9	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nyamatsanes	parataxis
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tear	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 pieces	case
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tear	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pieces	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 pieces	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cloud	cc
16	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	18 cloud	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cloud	det
18	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pieces	conj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 drawing	mark
20	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drawing	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drawing	aux
22	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 cloud	acl
23	near	near	ADV	_	22 drawing	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 quickness	case
25	amazing	amazing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 quickness	amod
26	quickness	quickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drawing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 felt	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 felt	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 nyamatsanes	det
30	nyamatsanes	nyamatsane	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 felt	nsubj
31	almost	almost	ADV	_	32 felt	advmod
32	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tear	conj
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 devouring	mark
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 devouring	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 devouring	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 devouring	aux
37	already	already	ADV	_	38 devouring	advmod
38	devouring	devour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 felt	advcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 devouring	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nyamatsanes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	hero	the nyamatsanes			tree rules
2	tear	future	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane	me	pieces and the cloud		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location i=Theme
3	draw	past · progressive	dust	the cloud not said here		with amazing quickness; near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme
4	feel	past	the nyamatsanes			almost property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	devour	past · progressive	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane	dust			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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