The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 34

But one day he heard a strange noise at his feet, and when he looked down to see what it could be, he saw a stone-cutter driving tools into his surface.

Who acts: rock, noise · What happens: hear, look down, see, be · To what, where: strange noise, feet, cutter driving tools, surface · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rock, noise), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 heard	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 noise	det
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 noise	amod
8	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 feet	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 looked	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 looked	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 looked	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 looked	advcl
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 be	obj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 be	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 be	aux
23	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 see	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 tools	det
28	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cutter	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 stone	punct
30	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tools	compound
31	driving	driving	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tools	compound
32	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 saw	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 surface	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 surface	nmod:poss
35	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	rock	a strange noise	rock's feet	day		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	look down	past	rock				down property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	to-infinitive	rock not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	can	could	noise					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
5	see	past	rock	a cutter driving tools	rock's surface			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tool=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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