The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 38
In fear and trembling they returned to tell the Magician what had happened.
Who acts: paths · What happens: tremble, return, tell, happen · To what, where: fear, Magician · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (paths), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 fear | case |
| 2 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 trembling | cc |
| 4 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 fear | conj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 returned | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Magician | det |
| 10 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | obj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 happened | aux |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | paths = path not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | return | past | paths = path | fear | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | paths = path not said here | the Magician | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent magician=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «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 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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