The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 2

But before they had accomplished half the way they heard again the rustle of her garments and her muttered curses pursuing them closely.

Who acts: they, girl, curses, garments · What happens: accomplish, hear, mutter, pursue, rustle · To what, where: way, rustle, curses

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, girl, curses, garments), 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 accomplished	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 accomplished	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 accomplished	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accomplished	aux
5	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 accomplished	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	acl:relcl
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 heard	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rustle	det
13	rustle	rustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 garments	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 garments	nmod:poss
16	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rustle	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 muttered	cc
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 muttered	nsubj
19	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	conj
20	curses	curse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 muttered	obj
21	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 curses	acl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pursuing	obj
23	closely	closely	ADV	_	21 pursuing	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 accomplished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	accomplish	past · perfect	they	half way			vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	they	the rustle of girl's garments	again		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustle=Stimulus
3	mutter speech: assert	past	girl	curses			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curse=Topic
4	pursue	gerund	curses not said here	curses = curse		closely property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	rustle		girl's garments				nom rustle «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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