The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 39

But his good spaniels lost no time in rushing to the rescue, and between them they bore him hastily from the hall, and not a moment too soon, for all around them they heard the clang of the falling blocks of ice as the Fairy Palace slowly collapsed under the unwonted heat.

Who acts: good spaniels, time, spaniels, clang · What happens: lose, rush, bear, hear, fall, collapse · To what, where: Palace, hall, unwonted heat, falling blocks

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good spaniels, time, spaniels, clang), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 lost	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spaniels	nmod:poss
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spaniels	amod
4	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lost	nsubj
5	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 rushing	mark
9	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 time	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 rescue	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rescue	det
12	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rushing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bore	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bore	cc
15	between	between	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bore	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bore	nsubj
18	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bore	obj
20	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	18 bore	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 hall	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hall	det
23	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bore	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 moment	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 moment	cc
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 moment	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 moment	det
28	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obl
29	too	too	ADV	_	30 soon	advmod
30	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 lost	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 heard	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	ADV	_	37 heard	advmod
34	around	around	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 heard	obl
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 heard	nsubj
37	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 clang	det
39	clang	clang	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 collapsed	nsubj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 blocks	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 blocks	det
42	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 blocks	amod
43	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 clang	nmod
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 ice	case
45	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 blocks	nmod
46	as	as	ADP	_	49 Palace	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Palace	det
48	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Palace	compound
49	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 ice	nmod
50	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	51 collapsed	advmod
51	collapsed	collapse	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 heard	parataxis
52	under	under	ADP	_	55 heat	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 heat	det
54	unwonted	unwonted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 heat	amod
55	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 collapsed	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Palace's good spaniels			moment; time	soon property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rush	gerund	no time not said here				to the rescue result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to rescue=Result
3	bear	past	spaniels = spaniel	Palace	the hall		between spaniels = spaniel; hastily property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	hear	past	spaniels = spaniel				around spaniels = spaniel; all property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	fall	gerund						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	collapse	past	the clang of the falling blocks of ice as the Fairy Palace		the unwonted heat		slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	clang			the falling blocks of ice as the Fairy Palace				nom clang «event 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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