More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 12
When the third sound of the bugle was heard, they were to release Boris, the Childe's favourite hound.
Who acts: servants · What happens: hear, release · To what, where: third sound, Boris
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 | 9 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 sound | amod |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bugle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bugle | det |
| 7 | bugle | bugle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sound | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux:pass |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 release | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 release | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 release | aux |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 release | mark |
| 14 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | Boris | Boris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 release | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hound | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Childe | det |
| 18 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 hound | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Childe | case |
| 20 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hound | amod |
| 21 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Boris | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 release | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | the third sound of the bugle | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | release | past | servants = servant | Boris | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer boris=Source |
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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