The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 129

It kept coming nearer and growing bigger, and what was this after all but the Eagle?

Who acts: sky · What happens: keep, come, grow, be · To what, where: this

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sky), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	nearer	near	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 coming	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 growing	cc
6	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 coming	conj
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 growing	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 kept	advcl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 this	cop
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 what	nsubj
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 what	obl
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 Eagle	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Eagle	det
17	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 what	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	sky			tree rules
2	come	gerund	sky not said here		near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	gerund	sky not said here		big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		this		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 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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