The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 59

To his dismay and astonishment he found a Giant lying at the entrance of the wood; he was about to run off as fast as his legs could carry him, when the Giant called out: ‘Don’t be afraid, I won’t harm you.

Who acts: BOY, legs, I · What happens: find, be, run off, carry, call out, not be · To what, where: Giant lying, entrance, BOY, you

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BOY, legs, I), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 dismay	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dismay	nmod:poss
3	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 astonishment	cc
5	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dismay	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lying	det
9	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lying	amod
10	lying	lying	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 entrance	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 entrance	det
13	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entrance	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 about	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 about	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 about	cop
20	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 found	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 run	mark
22	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 about	xcomp
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 run	compound:prt
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 fast	advmod
25	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 run	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 carry	mark
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 legs	nmod:poss
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 carry	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 carry	aux
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 fast	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 carry	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 called	punct
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 called	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Giant	det
35	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 called	advmod
36	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 about	conj
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 called	compound:prt
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 afraid	punct
39	‘	'	PUNCT	_	43 afraid	punct
40	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	43 afraid	aux
41	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 afraid	advmod
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 afraid	cop
43	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 found	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 harm	punct
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 harm	nsubj
46	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 harm	aux
47	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 harm	advmod
48	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 afraid	conj
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 harm	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	BOY	a Giant lying	the entrance of the wood	to BOY's dismay and astonishment	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent lying=Theme at entrance=Asset
2	is	past	BOY			about property	tree rules
3	run off	to-infinitive	BOY not said here			fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	could	BOY's legs	BOY			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	call out speech: assert	participle	BOY not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not is	infinitive · do-support				afraid property	tree rules
7	not harm	future	I	you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
8	dismay		BOY				nom dismay «feeling 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 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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