More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 68

When the pedlar heard this he spoke no word, but was exceeding glad in himself, and returning home speedily, digged underneath the great oak-tree, and found a prodigious great treasure.

Who acts: pedlar, returning · What happens: hear, speak, exceed, return, digg, find · To what, where: this, word, prodigious great treasure · 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 (pedlar, returning), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pedlar	det
3	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spoke	nsubj
7	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	parataxis
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoke	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 exceeding	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 exceeding	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 exceeding	aux
13	exceeding	exceed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 heard	advcl
14	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 exceeding	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 glad	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 digged	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 digged	cc
19	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 digged	csubj:pass
20	home	home	ADV	_	19 returning	advmod
21	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	19 returning	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 digged	punct
23	digged	digg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heard	conj
24	underneath	underneath	ADP	_	29 tree	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tree	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tree	amod
27	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tree	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 oak	punct
29	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 digged	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 found	cc
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 treasure	det
34	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 treasure	amod
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 treasure	amod
36	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the pedlar	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other	past	Pedlar	no word		tree rules
3	exceed	past · progressive	the pedlar not said here		glad property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	return	gerund			home, speedily property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	digg	participle	returning		underneath the great oak tree	tree rules
6	find	past	the pedlar not said here	a prodigious great treasure		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic

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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