--- title: But his good spaniels lost no time in rushing to the rescue, and bet… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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, t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Heart of Ice, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/) / 39 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:17:39 # text = 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. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 spaniels spaniel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 rushing rush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 rescue rescue NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 between between ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 29 too too ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 all all ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 34 around around ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 clang clang NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 amod _ _ 43 blocks block NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 46 as as ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 Palace Palace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 50 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 51 collapsed collapse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 parataxis _ _ 52 under under ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 unwonted unwonted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/40/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/)