The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 103

Soon the singing ceased, and straining his ears he heard them discussing anxiously what had become of their cave, and why they could not see the fire as usual.

Who acts: singing, ears, robbers · What happens: cease, strain, hear, discuss, become, not see · To what, where: ears, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (singing, ears, robbers), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ceased	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 singing	det
3	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ceased	nsubj
4	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
7	straining	strain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 heard	csubj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ears	nmod:poss
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 straining	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ceased	parataxis
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	obj
13	discussing	discuss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 heard	xcomp
14	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	15 what	advmod
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 become	xcomp
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 become	aux
17	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 discussing	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cave	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cave	nmod:poss
20	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 become	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 see	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 see	advmod
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 heard	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fire	det
29	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obj
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 usual	case
31	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 see	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cease	past	the singing		soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	strain	gerund		singing's ears		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent ear=Source
3	hear	past	singing	ears = ear		tree rules
4	discuss speech: other	gerund	ears = ear not said here			vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	become	past · perfect			of robbers's cave	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	not see	could	robbers = robber	the fire	as usual	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus as usual=Attribute

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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