The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 89

They came so close that he could hear the clatter of their golden wings, and their shrieks to each other: “_here, here,_” “_no, there; this way he went,_” as they chased him.

Who acts: sisters, boy, golden wings · What happens: come, hear, go, chase, clatter, shriek · To what, where: clatter, way, boy

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, boy, golden wings), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 close	advmod
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 hear	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hear	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	aux
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 close	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clatter	det
10	clatter	clatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 wings	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wings	nmod:poss
13	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wings	amod
14	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clatter	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shrieks	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shrieks	cc
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shrieks	nmod:poss
18	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 each	case
20	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	18 shrieks	obl
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 each	fixed
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 here	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 here	punct
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 here	punct
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 shrieks	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 here	punct
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 here	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 _	punct
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 here	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 here	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 there	punct
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	35 there	punct
33	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	35 there	discourse
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 there	punct
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 shrieks	advmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 way	det
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 went	obl:unmarked
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 went	nsubj
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 _	punct
42	_	_	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 chased	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 chased	nsubj
46	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 went	advcl
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 chased	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	sisters = sister		close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	could	boy	the clatter of sisters's golden wings		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer clatter=Stimulus
3	go in a quote	past	boy	this way		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	chase	past	sisters = sister	boy		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	clatter		sisters's golden wings			nom clatter «event intransitive»: of=agent
6	shriek		sisters = sister			nom shriek «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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