The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 146

So saying, he drew out his favourite whistle, and blew one ear-piercing note--whereupon the great lion, who had been dozing in the sunny courtyard, come bounding in on his soft, heavy feet.

Who acts: enchanter, great lion · What happens: say, draw out, blow, doze, come, bound · To what, where: favourite whistle, one piercing note, sunny courtyard, soft heavy feet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enchanter, great lion), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 drew	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drew	nsubj
5	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 drew	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 whistle	nmod:poss
8	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 whistle	amod
9	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drew	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blew	cc
12	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drew	conj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 note	nummod
14	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 piercing	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 ear	punct
16	piercing	piercing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 note	compound
17	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blew	obj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
19	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	33 come	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lion	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lion	amod
22	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dozing	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 dozing	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dozing	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 dozing	aux
27	dozing	doze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 lion	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 courtyard	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 courtyard	det
30	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 courtyard	amod
31	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dozing	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 blew	conj
34	bounding	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 come	xcomp
35	in	in	ADP	_	34 bounding	obl
36	on	on	ADP	_	41 feet	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 feet	nmod:poss
38	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 feet	amod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 soft	punct
40	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 feet	amod
41	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bounding	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	enchanter not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	draw out	past	enchanter	enchanter's favourite whistle			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme
3	blow	past	enchanter not said here	one piercing note			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent note=Patient
4	doze	past · perfect · progressive	the great lion		the sunny courtyard		vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come	infinitive	the great lion			whereupon property	tree rules
6	bound	gerund	the great lion not said here		enchanter's soft heavy feet		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory
7	whistle		enchanter				nom whistle «event 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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