The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 38
This wonderful feat filled them with dismay, and they at once turned and fled.
Who acts: wonderful feat, GIANTS · What happens: fill, turn, flee · To what, where: GIANTS
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonderful feat, GIANTS), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 feat | det |
| 2 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feat | amod |
| 3 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 filled | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 dismay | case |
| 7 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 turned | obl |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fled | cc |
| 15 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | this wonderful feat | GIANTS = giant | with dismay | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with dismay=Instrument | |||
| 2 | turn | past | GIANTS = giant | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | flee | past | GIANTS = giant 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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