The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 60

He walked fast, looking anxiously round him, and longing once more to see his darling Bellissima, but he had not gone far before he was surrounded by four terrible sphinxes who would very soon have torn him to pieces with their sharp talons if it had not been for the Mermaid’s diamond sword.

Who acts: King, four terrible sphinxes, memory · What happens: walk, look, long, see, not go, surround · To what, where: more, darling Bellissima, King

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, four terrible sphinxes, memory), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 walked	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looking	punct
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
6	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	5 looking	advmod
7	round	round	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 longing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 longing	cc
11	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 longing	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 longing	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 Bellissima	nmod:poss
17	darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Bellissima	amod
18	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gone	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 gone	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gone	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 gone	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 gone	advmod
24	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 walked	conj
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 gone	advmod
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 surrounded	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 surrounded	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 surrounded	aux:pass
29	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 gone	advcl
30	by	by	ADP	_	33 sphinxes	case
31	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 sphinxes	nummod
32	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sphinxes	amod
33	sphinxes	sphinx	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 surrounded	obl:agent
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 torn	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 torn	aux
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 soon	advmod
37	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 torn	advmod
38	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 torn	aux
39	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 sphinxes	acl:relcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 torn	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 pieces	case
42	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 torn	obl
43	with	with	ADP	_	46 talons	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 talons	nmod:poss
45	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 talons	amod
46	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pieces	nmod
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	57 sword	mark
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 sword	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 sword	aux
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 sword	advmod
51	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 sword	cop
52	for	for	ADP	_	57 sword	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Mermaid	det
54	Mermaid	Mermaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 sword	nmod:poss
55	’s	's	PART	_	54 Mermaid	case
56	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 sword	compound
57	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 torn	advcl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past	King		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund	King not said here		round King; anxiously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=Theme
3	long	gerund	King not said here	more		tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	King not said here	King's darling Bellissima		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bellissima=Stimulus
5	not go	past · perfect	King		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	surround	past · passive	four terrible sphinxes	King		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
7	tear	would · perfect	four terrible sphinxes	King	to pieces with sisters's sharp talons result; soon property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=Result
8	not is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	memory		for the Mermaid's diamond sword	tree rules

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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