The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 2
At the sound of the voice the stone-cutter looked round, but could see nobody.
Who acts: stone cutter · What happens: look round, see · To what, where: nobody
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone cutter), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sound | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sound | det |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 voice | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 voice | det |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sound | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cutter | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cutter | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 stone | punct |
| 10 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 looked | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 looked | conj |
| 17 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | past | the stone cutter | at the sound of the voice; round property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sound=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | could | the stone cutter not said here | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Stimulus |
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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