The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 51

The appearance of the wolf was so sudden and so unexpected, that the girl was almost paralysed, and never even dreamt of flight, till the horse leaped violently to one side.

Who acts: appearance, horse · What happens: be, paralyse, not dreamt, leap · To what, where: girl, one side

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appearance, horse), 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 appearance	det
2	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sudden	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wolf	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appearance	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sudden	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 sudden	advmod
8	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 unexpected	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 unexpected	advmod
11	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sudden	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 paralysed	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 paralysed	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girl	det
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 paralysed	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 paralysed	aux:pass
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 paralysed	advmod
18	paralysed	paralyse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sudden	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dreamt	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dreamt	cc
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 dreamt	advmod
22	even	even	ADV	_	23 dreamt	advmod
23	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 paralysed	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 flight	case
25	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dreamt	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 leaped	punct
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 leaped	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 horse	det
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leaped	nsubj
30	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dreamt	conj
31	violently	violently	ADV	_	30 leaped	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 side	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 side	nummod
34	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leaped	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sudden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the appearance of the wolf			sudden property	tree rules
2	be		the appearance of the wolf not said here				tree rules
3	paralyse	past · passive		the girl		almost property	tree rules
4	not dreamt	participle				of flight	tree rules
5	leap	past	the horse		one side	violently property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination

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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