More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 62

There was a sound in the chimney again, but this time the little boy did not wait to see what it was, but bolted off to bed, where he hid under the blankets and listened in fear and trembling to what went on.

Who acts: sound, little boy, boy · What happens: be, not wait, see, bolt off, hide, listen · To what, where: bed, blankets

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, little boy, boy), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 chimney	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chimney	det
7	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	nmod
8	again	again	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wait	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 wait	cc
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wait	obl:unmarked
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boy	amod
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wait	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wait	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 wait	advmod
18	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wait	advcl
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 see	obj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 was	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bolted	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 bolted	cc
26	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 wait	conj
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 bolted	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 bed	case
29	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bolted	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hid	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 hid	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hid	nsubj
33	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 bed	acl:relcl
34	under	under	ADP	_	36 blankets	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 blankets	det
36	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hid	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 listened	cc
38	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 bolted	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 fear	case
40	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 listened	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 trembling	cc
42	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 bolted	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 what	case
44	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 trembling	obl
45	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 what	acl:relcl
46	on	on	ADV	_	45 went	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a sound in the chimney	there	again		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not wait	past · do-support	the little boy		time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	the little boy not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	bolt off	participle	the little boy not said here	bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
5	hide	past	boy	the blankets			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under blanket=Location
6	listen	participle	the little boy not said here			in fear	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in fear=Theme
7	tremble	gerund	the little boy not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	go on	past					vn function-105.2.1 «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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