More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 58

You might hear the laughter of the children break and fade and die away as deeper and deeper into the lone green wood the stranger went and the children followed.

Who acts: You, children, stranger · What happens: hear, break, fade, die away, go, follow · To what, where: laughter, lone green wood

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 (You, children, stranger), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 laughter	det
5	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 break	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 break	nsubj
9	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 laughter	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fade	cc
11	fade	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 break	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 die	cc
13	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 die	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 deeper	case
16	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 die	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 deeper	cc
18	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 deeper	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	23 wood	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wood	det
21	lone	lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wood	amod
22	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wood	amod
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 die	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stranger	det
25	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wood	acl:relcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 followed	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 children	det
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 followed	nsubj
30	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 went	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	might	You	the laughter			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer laughter=Stimulus
2	break	present	the children	the laughter not said here			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer laughter=Patient
3	fade	present	the children not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	die away	present	You not said here		the lone green wood	away, deep property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	go	past	the stranger	the lone green wood not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wood=Theme
6	follow	past	the children				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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