More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 33

Then Scrapefoot thought he would like to go upstairs; and he listened and he could not hear any one.

Who acts: Scrapefoot · What happens: think, like, go, listen, not hear · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scrapefoot), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 thought	advmod
2	Scrapefoot	Scrapefoot	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 like	xcomp
9	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 listened	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 listened	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 listened	nsubj
13	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hear	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hear	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 hear	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 hear	advmod
18	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 listened	conj
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hear	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Scrapefoot		then		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	like	would	Scrapefoot				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Scrapefoot not said here			upstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	listen	past	Scrapefoot				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	not hear	could	Scrapefoot	any one			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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