The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 216

The Nunda did not stir: the spears had done their work, but a great fear seized them all, and they ran away and climbed the mountain.

Who acts: Nunda, great fear, legs · What happens: not stir, do, seize, run away, climb, work · To what, where: spears, legs, mountain

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nunda, great fear, legs), 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	2 Nunda	det
2	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stir	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stir	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stir	advmod
5	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spears	det
8	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 done	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stir	parataxis
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 work	nmod:poss
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 done	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seized	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 seized	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fear	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fear	amod
17	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seized	nsubj
18	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seized	obj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 them	nmod:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ran	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ran	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ran	nsubj
24	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seized	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 ran	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 climbed	cc
27	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ran	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mountain	det
29	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 climbed	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stir	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not stir	past · do-support	the Nunda			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	past · perfect · passive		the spears		tree rules
3	seize	past	a great fear	legs = leg		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	run away	past	legs = leg		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	climb	past	legs = leg not said here	the mountain		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme
6	work		legs = leg			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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