The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 86
He was just putting me into the menagerie when I happened to catch sight of a dog, and was seized with such terror that I fled away at my utmost speed, and escaped through the outer court of the castle.
Who acts: Giant, I · What happens: put, happen, catch, seize, flee away, escape · To what, where: me, menagerie, sight, such terror, utmost speed, outer court
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (Giant, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 putting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 putting | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 putting | advmod |
| 4 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 putting | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 menagerie | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 menagerie | det |
| 8 | menagerie | menagerie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 putting | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 happened | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 putting | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 catch | mark |
| 13 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 happened | xcomp |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 catch | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 dog | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sight | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seized | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seized | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seized | aux:pass |
| 21 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 happened | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 terror | case |
| 23 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 terror | amod |
| 24 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seized | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 fled | obj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 fled | nsubj |
| 27 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 terror | acl:relcl |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 fled | advmod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 speed | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 speed | nmod:poss |
| 31 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 speed | amod |
| 32 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fled | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 escaped | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 escaped | cc |
| 35 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 happened | conj |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 39 court | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 court | det |
| 38 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 court | amod |
| 39 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 escaped | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 castle | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 castle | det |
| 42 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 court | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 putting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · progressive | Giant | me | the menagerie | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal | |||
| 2 | happen | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | I not said here | sight of a dog | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seize | past · passive | I not said here | with such terror | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 5 | flee away | past | I | such terror | my utmost speed | away property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | escape | past | I not said here | the outer court of the castle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through court=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | sight | a dog | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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