The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 93

Never had Owen beheld such vast crowds, and following the dead knight was the most beautiful lady in the world, whose cry was louder than the shout of the men, or the braying of the trumpets.

Who acts: Owen, following, cry · What happens: not have, behold, follow, be, bray, shout · To what, where: such vast crowds, dead knight, beautiful lady, world, men

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owen, following, cry), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 beheld	nsubj
4	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crowds	amod
6	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crowds	amod
7	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beheld	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lady	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lady	cc
10	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 lady	csubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 knight	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 knight	amod
13	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 following	obj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lady	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lady	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 beautiful	advmod
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lady	amod
18	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lady	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 louder	punct
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 cry	nmod:poss
24	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 louder	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 louder	cop
26	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 lady	parataxis
27	than	than	ADP	_	29 shout	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shout	det
29	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 louder	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 men	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 men	det
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 shout	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 braying	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 braying	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 braying	det
36	braying	bray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 trumpets	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 trumpets	det
39	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 braying	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not have	past					tree rules
2	behold	past	Owen	such vast crowds			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crowd=Stimulus
3	follow	gerund		the dead knight			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme
4	is a	past	following	the beautiful lady	the world		tree rules
5	is	past	cry			than the shout of the men; loud property	tree rules
6	bray	gerund				of the trumpets	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	shout			the men			nom shout «communication 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 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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