The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 29

The wind being favourable they were soon out of hearing of the general howl of regret from the whole army, which had been given by order of the King, as a great compliment, and it was not long before the land was entirely lost to view.

Who acts: wind, pages, order, regret · What happens: be, give, not be, lose, view, howl · To what, where: hearing, whole army, land, King

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, pages, order, regret), 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	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 favourable	nsubj
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 favourable	cop
4	favourable	favourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hearing	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hearing	cop
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 hearing	advmod
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 hearing	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 hearing	case
10	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 favourable	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 howl	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 howl	det
13	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 howl	amod
14	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hearing	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 regret	case
16	regret	regret	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 howl	nmod
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 army	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 army	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 army	amod
20	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 regret	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 given	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 given	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 given	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 given	aux:pass
25	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 army	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 order	case
27	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 given	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 King	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 order	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 compliment	punct
32	as	as	ADP	_	35 compliment	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 compliment	det
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 compliment	amod
35	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 given	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 long	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 long	cc
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 long	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 long	cop
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 long	advmod
41	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 favourable	advmod
42	before	before	SCONJ	_	47 lost	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 land	det
44	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lost	nsubj:pass
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 lost	aux:pass
46	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	47 lost	advmod
47	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 long	advcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 view	mark
49	view	view	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 lost	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 favourable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	the wind			favourable property	tree rules
2	is	past	pages = page		hearing	of the general howl of regret from the whole army; soon property	tree rules
3	give	past · perfect · passive	order of the King	the whole army			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	not is	past	wind			long property	tree rules
5	lose	past · passive		the land		entirely property	tree rules
6	view	to-infinitive					vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	howl		regret from the whole army				nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=agent
8	order			the King			nom order «communication 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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