The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 121

“Hush!” whispered the fox, though nobody could hear him; “do you see that troop of armed men riding towards us?

Who acts: fox, nobody, you, armed men · What happens: whisper, hear, see, ride · To what, where: fox, troop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, nobody, you, armed men), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 whispered	punct
2	Hush	hush	INTJ	_	5 whispered	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hush	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hush	punct
5	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whispered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hear	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 hear	mark
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 hear	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	aux
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 whispered	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hear	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hear	conj
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 troop	det
20	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 men	case
22	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 men	amod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 troop	nmod
24	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 men	acl
25	towards	towards	ADP	_	26 us	case
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 riding	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	the fox			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	could	nobody	fox		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	see in a quote	present · do-support	you	that troop of armed men		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer troop=Stimulus
4	ride in a quote	gerund	armed men not said here		towards us	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards we=Trajectory

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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