The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 141

Immediately, to the horror of all who were looking on, the bees pursued them, and, growing suddenly to an enormous size, pounced each upon a maiden and carried her off into the air, and in an instant they were all lost to view.

Who acts: bees, growing · What happens: look on, pursue, grow, pounce, carry off, lose · To what, where: stings, horror, each, humming, air, bees

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bees, growing), 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	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	15 pursued	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Immediately	punct
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 horror	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horror	det
5	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pursued	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 horror	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 looking	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 looking	aux
10	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 all	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 looking	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 horror	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bees	det
14	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pursued	nsubj
15	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pursued	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pounced	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pounced	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 and	punct
20	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 pounced	csubj
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	20 growing	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 size	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 size	det
24	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 size	amod
25	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 growing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 growing	punct
27	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pursued	conj
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 pounced	obj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 maiden	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 maiden	det
31	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pounced	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 carried	cc
33	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pursued	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 carried	obj
35	off	off	ADP	_	33 carried	compound:prt
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 air	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 air	det
38	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carried	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 lost	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 lost	cc
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 instant	case
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 instant	det
43	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lost	obl
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 lost	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 lost	aux:pass
46	all	all	ADV	_	47 lost	advmod
47	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 pursued	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 view	case
49	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lost	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 pursued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look on	past · progressive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	pursue	past	the bees	stings = sting	the horror of all	immediately property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to horror=Trajectory
3	grow	gerund				to a enormous size; suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pounce	past	growing	each		upon a maiden	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location each=Theme
5	carry off	past	the bees not said here	humming	the air		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	lose	past · passive		bees = bee	a instant	to view; all property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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