The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 23

Their hissings and darting tongues so terrified the young man that his heart sank, and he felt he should never have courage to push on to certain death, when suddenly he caught sight of the golden bowl in front of the serpent-king, and knew that if he lost this chance it would never come back.

Who acts: hissings, heart, man, courage, serpents · What happens: dart, terrify, sink, feel, not have, push on · To what, where: young man, courage, certain death, sight, chance, golden bowl

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hissings, heart, man, courage), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hissings	nmod:poss
2	hissings	hissing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 terrified	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tongues	cc
4	darting	dart	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 tongues	amod
5	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hissings	conj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 terrified	advmod
7	terrified	terrify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 terrified	obj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 sank	mark
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 heart	nmod:poss
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sank	nsubj
14	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 terrified	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 felt	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 felt	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 felt	nsubj
18	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 terrified	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 have	advmod
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 felt	ccomp
23	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 push	mark
25	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 have	xcomp
26	on	on	ADP	_	25 push	compound:prt
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 death	case
28	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 death	amod
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 push	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 caught	punct
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 suddenly	advmod
32	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	34 caught	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 caught	nsubj
34	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 terrified	conj
35	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 caught	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 bowl	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 bowl	det
38	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 bowl	amod
39	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sight	nmod
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 front	case
41	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bowl	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	46 king	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 king	det
44	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 king	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 serpent	punct
46	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 front	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 knew	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 knew	cc
49	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 terrified	conj
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 lost	mark
51	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 lost	mark
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 lost	nsubj
53	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 knew	ccomp
54	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 chance	det
55	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 lost	obj
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 come	nsubj
57	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 come	aux
58	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	59 come	advmod
59	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 chance	acl:relcl
60	back	back	ADV	_	59 come	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dart	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	terrify	past	serpents's hissings and darting tongues	the young man			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer
3	sink	past	man's heart				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	feel	past	man				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not have	should	man	courage			tree rules
6	push on	to-infinitive	courage not said here		certain death		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent to death=Trajectory
7	catch	past	man	sight of the golden bowl in front of the serpent king		suddenly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
8	know	past	serpents's hissings and darting tongues not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	lose a condition, not said to happen	past	man	this chance			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Eventuality
10	not come back	would	courage	this chance not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chance=Theme
11	hiss		serpents = serpent				nom hissing «event transitive»: poss=agent
12	sight			the golden bowl in front of the serpent king			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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