The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 204

The other cats were so astonished at the turn things had taken that they forgot to run away, and the young man and Schippeitaro between them killed several more before they thought of escaping.

Who acts: other cats, cats, young man · What happens: be, take, forget, not run away, kill, think · To what, where: turn things, several more

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other cats, cats, young 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cats	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cats	amod
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 astonished	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 astonished	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 astonished	advmod
6	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	SCONJ	_	12 taken	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 things	det
9	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 things	compound
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 taken	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 taken	aux
12	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 astonished	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 forgot	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 forgot	nsubj
15	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 taken	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 run	mark
17	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 forgot	xcomp
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 run	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 killed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 killed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 killed	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Schippeitaro	cc
25	Schippeitaro	Schippeitaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 man	conj
26	between	between	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 man	nmod
28	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 astonished	parataxis
29	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 more	amod
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 killed	obj
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	33 thought	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thought	nsubj
33	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 killed	advcl
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 escaping	mark
35	escaping	escape	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 thought	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the other cats		astonished property	tree rules
2	take	past · perfect · passive		the turn things		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	forget	past	cats = cat			tree rules
4	not run away	to-infinitive	cats = cat not said here		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	kill	past	the young man between cats and Schippeitaro	several more		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	cats = cat			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	escape	gerund	cats = cat not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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