The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 20

As soon as the wild beasts heard of their king’s death, they all hastened to the castle, but the youth had long since mounted his horse and was already far out of their reach.

Who acts: wild beasts, youth, king · What happens: hear, hasten, mount, be, die · To what, where: beasts, castle, horse, reach

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild beasts, youth, king), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 heard	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 beasts	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beasts	det
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beasts	amod
6	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 death	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 king	nmod:poss
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 death	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hastened	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hastened	nsubj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 hastened	nsubj:pass
16	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 heard	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 castle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 castle	det
19	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hastened	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mounted	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 mounted	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 youth	det
23	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mounted	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mounted	aux
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 mounted	advmod
26	since	since	ADV	_	27 mounted	advmod
27	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 horse	nmod:poss
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mounted	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 far	cc
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 far	cop
32	already	already	ADV	_	33 far	advmod
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 mounted	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	37 reach	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 reach	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 reach	nmod:poss
37	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 far	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the wild beasts			of beasts's king's death; soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of death=Stimulus
2	hasten	participle · passive		beasts = beast	the castle		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to castle=Trajectory
3	mount	past	the youth	youth's horse		long, since property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
4	is	past	the youth not said here		beasts's reach	far property	tree rules
5	die		beasts's king				nom death «event intransitive»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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