The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 73
Master Peter, who had been listening attentively, pricked up his ears at the sound of his daughter’s name, and very soon found out that it was indeed with her that this young man was so deeply in love.
Who acts: Master, Bitter, young man, daughter · What happens: listen, prick up, find out, be, name · To what, where: ears, sound, love
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, Bitter, young man, daughter), 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 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Master | appos |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 listening | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 listening | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 listening | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 listening | aux |
| 7 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Master | appos |
| 8 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 7 listening | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pricked | punct |
| 10 | pricked | prick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 listening | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 pricked | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ears | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pricked | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 sound | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sound | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pricked | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 name | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 name | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 daughter | case |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sound | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 found | cc |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 soon | advmod |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 found | advmod |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 pricked | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 found | compound:prt |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 her | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 her | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 her | cop |
| 31 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 33 her | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 found | obl |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 love | mark |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 man | det |
| 36 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 man | amod |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 love | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 love | cop |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 deeply | advmod |
| 40 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 42 love | advmod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 love | case |
| 42 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Master | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past · perfect · progressive | Master | attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | prick up | participle | Master not said here | Peter's ears | the sound of Peter's daughter's name | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient | |||
| 3 | find out | participle | Master not said here | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Bitter | with maiden; indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | this young man | love | deeply property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | name | Peter's daughter | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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