The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 34

The fight was so fierce that it seemed as if the earth would give way under them, and for twenty miles round the beasts in the forests fled to their caves for shelter.

Who acts: fight, it, earth · What happens: be, seem, give, flee · To what, where: way, caves

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fight, it, earth), 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 fight	det
2	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fierce	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fierce	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 fierce	advmod
5	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 seemed	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seemed	nsubj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fierce	ccomp
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 give	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 give	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seemed	ccomp
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
16	under	under	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fled	cc
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 miles	case
21	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 miles	nummod
22	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fled	obl
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 beasts	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 beasts	det
25	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 miles	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 forests	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 forests	det
28	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 beasts	nmod
29	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fierce	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 caves	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 caves	nmod:poss
32	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fled	obl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 shelter	case
34	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fled	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fierce	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fight			fierce property	tree rules
2	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	give a condition, not said to happen	would	the earth	way		under knees = knee	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4	flee	past	the fight not said here		knees's caves	for twenty miles round the beasts in the forests; for shelter	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location

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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