More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 119

By-and-by Jan's wife heard a noise, and she looked to see what it was.

Who acts: wife, noise · What happens: hear, look, see, be · To what, where: noise

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, noise), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 heard	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 heard	mark
6	Jan	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Jan	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 noise	det
11	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looked	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 looked	xcomp
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 see	obj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 what	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 what	cop
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	past	Jan's wife	a noise	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	look	past	wife		tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	wife not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	noise		tree rules

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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