The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 88

Then the two Dreadful Sisters who were left wakened, and rose in the air like great birds; and though they could not see him because of his Cap of Darkness, they flew after him up the wind, following by the scent through the clouds, like hounds hunting in a wood.

Who acts: sisters, hounds · What happens: waken, rise, not see, fly up, follow, hunt · To what, where: two Dreadful Sisters, air, boy, wind, clouds, wood

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, hounds), 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	5 Sisters	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sisters	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Sisters	nummod
4	Dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Sisters	amod
5	Sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wakened	nsubj:pass
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 wakened	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wakened	aux:pass
8	left	left	ADV	_	9 wakened	advmod
9	wakened	waken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rose	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rose	cc
12	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wakened	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 air	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	obl
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 birds	case
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 birds	amod
18	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rose	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 see	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 see	advmod
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wakened	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	obj
27	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	30 Cap	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 because	fixed
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 Cap	nmod:poss
30	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 see	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Darkness	case
32	Darkness	Darkness	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Cap	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 flew	punct
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 flew	nsubj
35	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wakened	parataxis
36	after	after	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 flew	obl
38	up	up	ADP	_	35 flew	compound:prt
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wind	det
40	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 flew	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 following	punct
42	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 flew	conj
43	by	by	ADP	_	45 scent	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 scent	det
45	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 following	obl
46	through	through	ADP	_	48 clouds	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 clouds	det
48	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 following	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 hounds	punct
50	like	like	ADP	_	51 hounds	case
51	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 clouds	conj
52	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 hounds	acl
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 wood	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 wood	det
55	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 hunting	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wakened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waken	past · passive		the two Dreadful Sisters			left property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	rise	past			the air		like great birds	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location
3	not see	could	sisters = sister	boy			because boy's Cap of Darkness	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	fly up	past	sisters = sister	the wind		after boy		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wind=Theme
5	follow	gerund	sisters = sister not said here		the clouds and hounds		by the scent	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by scent=Location
6	hunt	gerund	hounds not said here		a wood			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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