The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 14

The first visit he paid was to the hyaenas, who trembled at the sight of him, and whispered to each other, ‘How shall we escape from this terrible beast?’

Who acts: hare, first visit, hyaenas, we · What happens: pay, be, tremble, whisper, escape, sight · To what, where: first visit, sight, each, terrible beast, hare

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, first visit, hyaenas, we), 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	3 visit	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 visit	amod
3	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hyaenas	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 paid	nsubj
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 visit	acl:relcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hyaenas	cop
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 hyaenas	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hyaenas	det
9	hyaenas	hyaena	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trembled	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 trembled	nsubj
12	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hyaenas	acl:relcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 sight	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sight	det
15	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trembled	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sight	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 whispered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 whispered	cc
20	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 trembled	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 each	case
22	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	20 whispered	obl
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 each	fixed
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 escape	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 escape	punct
26	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 escape	advmod
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 escape	aux
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 escape	nsubj
29	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hyaenas	parataxis
30	from	from	ADP	_	33 beast	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 beast	det
32	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 beast	amod
33	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 escape	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 escape	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 escape	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay	past	hare	the first visit not said here				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
2	is	past	the first visit				to the hyaenas	tree rules
3	tremble	past	the hyaenas			the sight of hare		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location
4	whisper speech: assert	past	the hyaenas not said here		each			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
5	escape	shall	we			this terrible beast		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from beast=Initial_Location
6	sight			hare				nom sight «cognition 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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