The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 95

On their way there, however, a sudden noise threw them into such a panic that they dropped the sack with Simon in it and ran for their lives.

Who acts: sudden noise, wives · What happens: throw, drop, run · To what, where: wives, way, sack

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (sudden noise, wives), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 way	nmod:poss
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threw	obl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 way	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	11 threw	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 noise	det
9	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 noise	amod
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threw	nsubj
11	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 threw	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 panic	case
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 panic	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 panic	det
16	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threw	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 dropped	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dropped	nsubj
19	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 threw	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sack	det
21	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dropped	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 Simon	case
23	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 sack	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dropped	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ran	cc
27	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dropped	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 lives	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 lives	nmod:poss
30	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ran	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	a sudden noise	wives = wife	wives's way	into such panic result; however property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into panic=Result
2	drop	past	wives = wife	the sack	sack	with Simon	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme in it=Destination
3	run	past	wives = wife not said here			for wives's lives	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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