The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 29

While he was gazing on it and wondering what it could mean, he heard the sweeping of wings above him, and looking up he saw a huge vulture with open claws swooping down upon him.

Who acts: hare, dove, open claws · What happens: gaze, wonder, mean, hear, look up, see · To what, where: sweeping, huge vulture, wings · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hare, dove, open claws), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 gazing	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gazing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gazing	aux
4	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 heard	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gazing	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wondering	cc
8	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gazing	conj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 mean	obj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mean	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 mean	aux
12	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wondering	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gazing	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sweeping	det
17	sweeping	sweeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 wings	case
19	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sweeping	nmod
20	above	above	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wings	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
24	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 saw	advcl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 looking	compound:prt
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 vulture	det
29	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 vulture	amod
30	vulture	vulture	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 claws	case
32	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 claws	amod
33	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 vulture	nmod
34	swooping	swoop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 claws	acl
35	down	down	ADV	_	34 swooping	advmod
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 swooping	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gaze	past · progressive	hare		on dove	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on it=Theme
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	hare not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	mean	could	dove			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	hear	past	hare	the sweeping of wings above bird		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sweeping=Stimulus
5	look up	gerund	hare not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	see	past	hare	a huge vulture	with open claws	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vulture=Stimulus
7	swoop down	gerund	open claws not said here		upon hare; down property	tree rules
8	sweep			wings above bird		nom sweeping «act transitive»: of=patient

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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