The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 12

The terrified woodcutter fled as fast as his legs would carry him, and after that neither orders nor threats would drive anybody to the enchanted moor.

Who acts: terrified woodcutter, legs, orders · What happens: flee, carry, drive, enchant · To what, where: woodcutter, anybody, enchanted moor

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrified woodcutter, legs, orders), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woodcutter	det
2	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woodcutter	amod
3	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fled	nsubj
4	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fled	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 carry	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 carry	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 carry	aux
11	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fast	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carry	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drive	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drive	cc
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 orders	obl
17	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	18 orders	det
18	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 drive	nsubj
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 threats	cc
20	threats	threat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 orders	conj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 drive	aux
22	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fled	conj
23	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 drive	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 moor	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 moor	det
26	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 moor	amod
27	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drive	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flee	past	the terrified woodcutter			fast property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	carry	would	woodcutter's legs	woodcutter			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	drive	would	neither orders nor threats	anybody	the enchanted moor		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent anybody=Theme to moor=Trajectory
4	enchant	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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