The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 49

The Princess heard his puffing and roaring, and growing frightened she cried: ‘Oh dear! the bear is after us and will certainly catch us up!’

Who acts: Princess, bear · What happens: hear, roar, grow, frighten, cry, be · To what, where: puffing, us

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, bear), 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 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 puffing	nmod:poss
5	puffing	puffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 roaring	cc
7	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 puffing	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 frightened	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 frightened	cc
10	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 frightened	nsubj:pass
11	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 heard	parataxis
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cried	nsubj
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frightened	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 dear	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 dear	punct
16	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	17 dear	discourse
17	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heard	parataxis
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 dear	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bear	det
20	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 us	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 us	cop
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 us	case
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 dear	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 catch	cc
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 catch	aux
26	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	27 catch	advmod
27	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 us	conj
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 catch	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 catch	compound:prt
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the Princess	bear's puffing			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer puffing=Stimulus
2	roar	gerund	the Princess not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	gerund					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	frighten	participle · passive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	cry speech: express	past	Princess				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	the bear		after us		tree rules
7	catch up	future	the bear not said here	us		certainly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
8	puff		bear				nom puffing «act transitive»: 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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