The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 128

They rushed on as fast as ghosts, as whirlwinds, as vampires when they hunt at midnight, and how long they rode no man can tell, for the way is far.

Who acts: Costan, man · What happens: rush, hunt, ride, tell, be · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (Costan, man), 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 rushed	nsubj
2	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 rushed	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 rushed	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 ghosts	case
7	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rushed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 whirlwinds	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 whirlwinds	case
10	whirlwinds	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ghosts	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 vampires	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 vampires	case
13	vampires	vampire	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ghosts	conj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 hunt	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hunt	nsubj
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 vampires	acl:relcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 midnight	case
18	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hunt	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rode	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rode	cc
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 rode	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rode	nsubj
24	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rushed	conj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rode	obj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	aux
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 man	acl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 far	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 way	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 far	obl
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 far	cop
34	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 rode	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rush	past	Costan			as ghosts and whirlwinds and vampires; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hunt	present	Costan		midnight		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ride	past	Costan	no man		long property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	can	no man not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present				for the way; far property	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 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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