The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 90

And, indeed, at that moment the poor Princess heard their dreadful howls coming nearer and nearer.

Who acts: moment, dreadful howls, lions · What happens: hear, come, howl · To what, where: dreadful howls

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 (moment, dreadful howls, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 indeed	punct
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	11 heard	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 moment	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 moment	det
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Princess	amod
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 moment	appos
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 howls	nmod:poss
13	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 howls	amod
14	howls	howl	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	obj
15	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 howls	acl
16	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 coming	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 nearer	cc
18	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 nearer	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	that moment	lions's dreadful howls	indeed property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer howl=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	lions's dreadful howls not said here		near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	howl		lions = lion			nom howl «communication intransitive»: 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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