The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 49

But they had hardly gone twenty yards when a tremendous noise behind her made Graciosa look back, and she saw the palace of crystal fly into a million splinters, like the spray of a fountain, and vanish.

Who acts: stags, tremendous noise, Graciosa · What happens: go, make, look back, see, vanish · To what, where: twenty yards, palace, million splinters

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stags, tremendous noise, Graciosa), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 gone	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 yards	nummod
7	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 made	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 noise	det
10	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 noise	amod
11	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	nsubj
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 noise	nmod
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 yards	advcl
15	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 look	nsubj
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	xcomp
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 look	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 palace	det
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 fly	case
25	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fly	amod
26	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 palace	nmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 splinters	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 million	det
29	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 splinters	nummod
30	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 saw	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 spray	punct
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 spray	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 spray	det
34	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 fountain	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 fountain	det
37	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 spray	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 vanish	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 vanish	cc
40	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	stags = stag	twenty yards		hardly property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yard=Theme
2	make	past	a tremendous noise behind Percinet				tree rules
3	look back	infinitive	Graciosa				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	past	Graciosa	the palace of crystal fly	million splinters		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus
5	vanish	present	stags = stag not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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