The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 78

He realised at once that this could be none other than the nixy of the mill-pond, and in his terror he didn’t know if he should fly away or remain where he was.

Who acts: miller, this · What happens: realise, be, not know, fly away, remain · To what, where: none, terror · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (miller, this), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 realised	nsubj
2	realised	realise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 realised	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 none	mark
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 none	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 none	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 none	cop
9	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	2 realised	ccomp
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 none	amod
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 nixy	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nixy	det
13	nixy	nixy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 other	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 pond	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pond	det
16	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pond	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 mill	punct
18	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nixy	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 terror	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 terror	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 terror	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 terror	nmod:poss
23	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nixy	appos
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
26	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 terror	acl:relcl
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 fly	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fly	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fly	aux
31	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 know	ccomp
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 fly	advmod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 remain	cc
34	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 fly	conj
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 was	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 was	nsubj
37	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 remain	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 realised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	realise	past	miller			tree rules
2	is a	could	this	none		tree rules
3	not know	past · do-support	miller	miller's terror not said here		tree rules
4	fly away a condition, not said to happen	should	miller		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	remain	infinitive	miller not said here			tree rules
6	be	past	miller			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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