The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 28

Then the birds flew away, and the young man looked about him, his heart beating fast at the thought that here dwelt the lady whom he had sought all the world over.

Who acts: birds, young man, heart · What happens: fly away, look, beat, dwell, seek over · To what, where: thought, lady

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, young man, heart), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 flew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 beating	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heart	nmod:poss
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beating	nsubj
17	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 looked	advcl
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 beating	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 thought	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thought	det
21	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beating	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 dwelt	obj
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 dwelt	advmod
24	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thought	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lady	det
26	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dwelt	obj
27	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 sought	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sought	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sought	aux
30	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 lady	acl:relcl
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 world	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sought	obj
34	over	over	ADP	_	30 sought	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	the birds			then	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	the young man				about king	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
3	beat	gerund	king's heart		the thought		fast property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thought=Location
4	dwell	past		the thought	here			tree rules
5	seek over	past · perfect	heart	the lady				tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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