The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 46

The young man’s heart beat with anxiety lest he should lose sight of his guides, but he managed to keep the birds in view until they again perched upon a tree.

Who acts: heart beat, beat, birds · What happens: lose, manage, keep, perch, sight · To what, where: sight, birds, view, tree, guides

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart beat, beat, birds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 man	case
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	compound
6	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lose	nsubj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 anxiety	case
8	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	nmod
9	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	12 lose	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lose	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lose	aux
12	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lose	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 guides	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 guides	nmod:poss
16	guides	guide	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sight	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 managed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 managed	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 managed	nsubj
20	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lose	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 keep	mark
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 managed	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 birds	det
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 keep	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 view	case
26	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keep	obl
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	30 perched	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 perched	nsubj
29	again	again	ADV	_	30 perched	advmod
30	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 keep	advcl
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 tree	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tree	det
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 perched	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lose	should	the young man's heart beat with anxiety	sight of beat's guides			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
2	manage	past	beat				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	keep	to-infinitive	beat not said here	the birds	view		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bird=Theme in view=Location
4	perch	past	birds = bird		a tree	again	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tree=Location
5	sight			beat's guides			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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