The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 13
An awful terror overcame the fiddler; but it was hopeless to think of turning back or of standing still, and the hopes of finding gold and other treasures gave him strength and courage to force his way further into the castle.
Who acts: awful terror, it, hopes, finding gold · What happens: overcome, be, think, turn back, stand, give · To what, where: fiddler, strength, treasure, way, castle
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (awful terror, it, hopes, finding gold), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 terror | det |
| 2 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 terror | amod |
| 3 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overcame | nsubj |
| 4 | overcame | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fiddler | det |
| 6 | fiddler | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overcame | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 hopeless | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 hopeless | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hopeless | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hopeless | cop |
| 11 | hopeless | hopeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 overcame | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hopeless | csubj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 turning | mark |
| 15 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 think | advcl |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 turning | advmod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 standing | cc |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 standing | mark |
| 19 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 turning | conj |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 standing | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 gave | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 gave | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hopes | det |
| 24 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 gave | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 26 | finding | finding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gold | compound |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hopes | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 treasures | cc |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 treasures | amod |
| 30 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 gold | conj |
| 31 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overcame | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 gave | iobj |
| 33 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 courage | cc |
| 35 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 strength | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 force | mark |
| 37 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 gave | advcl |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 way | nmod:poss |
| 39 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 force | obj |
| 40 | further | further | ADV | _ | 43 castle | advmod |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 castle | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 castle | det |
| 43 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 force | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overcame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | past | a awful terror | the fiddler | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fiddler=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | it | hopeless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | turn back | gerund | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | give | past | the hopes of finding gold and other treasures | strength and courage | treasure | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient strength=Theme | |||
| 7 | force | to-infinitive | the hopes of finding gold and other treasures not said here | treasure's way | the castle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient | |||
| 8 | hope | finding gold and other treasures | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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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