The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 4

A few steps further this man came up with another as miserable to the full as he himself; they silently embraced, and then without a word passed the cords round their throats, and fell dead side by side.

Who acts: few steps, men · What happens: come up, embrace, pass, fall · To what, where: full, cords, dead side

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (few steps, men), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 steps	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 steps	amod
3	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
4	further	further	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 another	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 came	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 miserable	case
12	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 came	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 full	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 full	det
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 came	obl
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 himself	case
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 himself	nsubj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 full	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 embraced	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 embraced	nsubj
21	silently	silently	ADV	_	22 embraced	advmod
22	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 passed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 passed	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 passed	advmod
26	without	without	ADP	_	28 word	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 word	det
28	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 passed	obl
29	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cords	det
31	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 passed	obj
32	round	round	ADP	_	34 throats	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 throats	nmod:poss
34	throats	throat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 passed	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fell	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fell	cc
37	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
38	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 side	amod
39	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fell	obj
40	by	by	ADP	_	41 side	case
41	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fell	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	a few steps		the full		with another; as miserable; further property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to full=Initial_Location
2	embrace	past	men = man				silently property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pass	past	a few steps not said here	the cords		then	without a word; round men's throats	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cord=Trajectory
4	fall	past	a few steps not said here	dead side			by side	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient side=Result

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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