The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 30

The cake was all gone! and, to make matters worse, at that moment she heard the roaring of the great lions, who had found out that she was near and were coming to look for her.

Who acts: cake, queen, great lions · What happens: be, make, hear, find out, come, look · To what, where: matters, roaring

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cake, queen, great lions), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cake	det
2	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 make	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gone	conj
11	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	obj
12	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 make	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 moment	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 moment	det
16	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 make	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 roaring	det
20	roaring	roaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 lions	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lions	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lions	amod
24	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 roaring	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 found	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 found	aux
28	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 lions	acl:relcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 found	compound:prt
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 near	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 near	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 near	cop
33	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 found	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 coming	cc
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 coming	aux
36	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 near	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 look	mark
38	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 coming	advcl
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 look	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cake			all, gone property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	the cake not said here	matters		bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset matter=Product
3	hear	past	queen	the roaring of the great lions	moment		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer roaring=Stimulus
4	find out	past · perfect	the great lions				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	queen			near property	tree rules
6	come	past · progressive	queen not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	look	to-infinitive	queen not said here			for queen	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=Theme
8	roar		the great lions				nom roaring «event 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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