The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 91

They trembled with terror when they saw the hideous creature, and hid themselves beneath the leaves.

Who acts: children · What happens: tremble, see, hide · To what, where: hideous creature, children, leaves

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 trembled	nsubj
2	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 terror	case
4	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trembled	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 trembled	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 creature	det
9	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 creature	amod
10	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hid	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hid	cc
13	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 trembled	conj
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 hid	obj
15	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	17 leaves	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 leaves	det
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hid	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 trembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tremble	past	children = child			with terror	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	children = child	the hideous creature			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus
3	hide	past	children = child not said here	children = child	the leaves		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient beneath leaf=Location

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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