The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 17

Then her wrath gave place to terror, for she feared every moment to be torn in pieces by the beasts who one and all seemed to defy her power.

Who acts: wrath, church, beasts · What happens: give, fear, tear, seem, defy · To what, where: place, terror, pieces, power

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wrath, church, beasts), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gave	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wrath	nmod:poss
3	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 terror	case
7	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feared	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 feared	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 feared	nsubj
11	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 moment	det
13	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feared	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 torn	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 torn	aux:pass
16	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 feared	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 pieces	case
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 torn	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 beasts	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 beasts	det
21	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 torn	obl
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 one	nsubj
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 beasts	appos
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seemed	cc
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 seemed	advmod
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 defy	mark
28	defy	defy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 seemed	xcomp
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 power	nmod:poss
30	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 defy	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	past	church's wrath	place	terror		then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent place=Theme to terror=Recipient
2	fear	past	church				moment	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	tear	to-infinitive · passive	the beasts			pieces		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Trajectory
4	seem	past	the beasts not said here					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	defy	to-infinitive	the beasts not said here	church's power				tree rules

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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