Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 25
Then he blew his horn three times very loudly; and when his friends heard it they were glad, but the Danes were filled with fear.
Who acts: King, friends · What happens: blow, hear, be, fill · To what, where: horn, Danes
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, friends), 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 blew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horn | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obj |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blew | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 loudly | advmod |
| 9 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 blew | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 glad | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 glad | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 heard | advmod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 glad | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | obj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 glad | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 glad | cop |
| 19 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blew | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 filled | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 filled | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Danes | det |
| 23 | Danes | Dane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 filled | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 filled | aux:pass |
| 25 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 glad | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 fear | case |
| 27 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 filled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | King | King's horn | then; time | loudly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||
| 2 | hear | past | King's friends | horn | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | friends = friend | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fill | past · passive | the Danes | with fear | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fear=Instrument |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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