More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 27

Still he slept, and she nearly lost hope altogether, But that day, when he was out hunting, somebody asked him what noise and moaning was that they heard all last night in his bedchamber.

Who acts: aye, hill, somebody, noise · What happens: sleep, lose, be, ask · To what, where: hope, day hunting, aye, bedchamber

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aye, hill, somebody, 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	Still	still	ADV	_	3 slept	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slept	nsubj
3	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lost	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lost	nsubj
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	8 lost	advmod
8	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slept	conj
9	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	obj
10	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	8 lost	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hunting	punct
12	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 hunting	cc
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hunting	compound
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 was	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 was	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hunting	cop
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 was	compound:prt
20	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slept	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
22	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slept	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	iobj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 heard	obj
26	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heard	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 moaning	cc
28	moaning	moaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 noise	conj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 heard	cop
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 heard	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 heard	nsubj
32	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asked	conj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 night	det
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 night	amod
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heard	obl:unmarked
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 bedchamber	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 bedchamber	nmod:poss
38	bedchamber	bedchamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heard	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	aye				still		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	past	hill	hope				altogether, nearly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Eventuality
3	is a	past		day hunting					tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	past	somebody		aye				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is	past	noise and moaning			aye's bedchamber	night	hear property	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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