The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 79

He had hardly lost sight of his gaunt grey friend when he heard growls and snarls in the thicket close to him, and before he had time to think he found himself surrounded by the most dreadful-looking creatures.

Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: lose, hear, have, think, find, surround · To what, where: sight, growls, thicket, Iwanich, gaunt grey friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Iwanich), 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	4 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 lost	advmod
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 friend	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friend	nmod:poss
8	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 friend	amod
9	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 friend	amod
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sight	nmod
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 heard	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	advcl
14	growls	growl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 heard	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 snarls	cc
16	snarls	snarl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 growls	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 thicket	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thicket	det
19	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obl
20	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thicket	amod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 close	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	conj
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 think	mark
30	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 time	acl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 think	ccomp
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 found	obj
34	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 found	ccomp
35	by	by	ADP	_	41 creatures	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 creatures	det
37	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	38 dreadful	advmod
38	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 looking	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 dreadful	punct
40	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 creatures	amod
41	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 surrounded	obl:agent
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	Iwanich	sight of Iwanich's gaunt grey friend			hardly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
2	hear	past	Iwanich	growls and snarls	the thicket			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer growl=Stimulus
3	have	past	Iwanich			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Iwanich not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	find	past	Iwanich	Iwanich				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
6	surround	participle						vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
7	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	sight			Iwanich's gaunt grey friend				nom sight «cognition 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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