The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 28

On he flew as if a whole army of foes were at his heels, and he seemed to hear the noise of their approach growing nearer and nearer.

Who acts: noise, whole army, approach, heels · What happens: fly, be, seem, hear, grow, noise · To what, where: noise

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, whole army, approach, heels), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	3 flew	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	14 heels	case
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 heels	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 army	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 army	amod
8	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heels	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 foes	case
10	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 army	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heels	cop
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 heels	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 heels	nmod:poss
14	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seemed	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hear	mark
20	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 seemed	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 noise	det
22	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hear	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 approach	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 approach	nmod:poss
25	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 noise	nmod
26	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 approach	acl
27	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 growing	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 nearer	cc
29	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 nearer	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly	past	noise			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	a whole army of foes		as noise's heels	tree rules
3	seem	past	noise			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	hear	to-infinitive	noise not said here	the noise of heels's approach		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
5	grow	gerund	heels's approach not said here		near property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	noise		heels's approach			nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent
7	approach		heels = heel			nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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