The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 19

When the Blefuscudians saw the fleet moving in order, and me pulling at the end, they set up a scream of grief and despair that it is impossible to describe.

Who acts: Blefuscudians, fleet, me, despair, grief · What happens: see, move, pull, set up, be, describe · To what, where: fleet, order, scream

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blefuscudians, fleet, me, despair), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Blefuscudians	det
3	Blefuscudians	Blefuscudian	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 set	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fleet	det
6	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
7	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fleet	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 order	case
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moving	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pulling	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pulling	cc
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 pulling	nsubj
13	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 saw	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 end	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pulling	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 set	nsubj
19	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 set	compound:prt
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 scream	det
22	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 grief	case
24	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 scream	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 despair	cc
26	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grief	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 impossible	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 impossible	expl
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 impossible	cop
30	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 despair	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 describe	mark
32	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 impossible	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Blefuscudians	the fleet				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fleet=Stimulus
2	move	gerund	the fleet not said here		order			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in order=Trajectory
3	pull	gerund	me			at the end		vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at end=Theme
4	set up	past	Blefuscudians = blefuscudian	a scream of grief and despair				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient scream=Result
5	is	present	despair not said here				impossible property	tree rules
6	describe	to-infinitive	despair not said here					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	scream		grief and despair					nom scream «communication 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 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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