The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 189

Just before they lost sight of the little house they heard loud cries and lamentations from the miserly old dame, and, looking round, perceived that the beautiful cow was vanishing in spite of her frantic efforts to hold it fast.

Who acts: lamentations, beautiful cow · What happens: lose, hear, look round, perceive, vanish, hold · To what, where: sight, loud cries, miserly old dame, spite, little house, frantic efforts

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamentations, beautiful cow), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 lost	advmod
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 lost	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sight	nmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 house	acl:relcl
12	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cries	amod
13	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lamentations	cc
15	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cries	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	20 dame	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dame	det
18	miserly	miserly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dame	amod
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dame	amod
20	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 perceived	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 perceived	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 perceived	advcl
25	round	round	ADV	_	24 looking	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looking	punct
27	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 vanishing	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cow	det
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cow	amod
31	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 vanishing	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 vanishing	aux
33	vanishing	vanish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 perceived	advcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 spite	case
35	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 vanishing	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 efforts	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 efforts	nmod:poss
38	frantic	frantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 efforts	amod
39	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 spite	nmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 hold	mark
41	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 vanishing	advcl
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 hold	obj
43	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 hold	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	past	lamentations = lamentation	sight of the little house			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
2	hear	past	lamentations = lamentation	loud cries and lamentations	the miserly old dame		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cry=Topic from dame=Source
3	look round	gerund				round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	perceive	past	lamentations = lamentation not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	vanish	past · progressive	the beautiful cow		spite of cow's frantic efforts		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hold	to-infinitive	the beautiful cow not said here	sight		fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	sight			the little house			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8	spite			cow's frantic efforts			nom spite «feeling 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 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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