The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 19
If they heard the twang of an arrow or saw the glitter of a spear, ever so far off, they lay very still, and were not to be tempted from their hiding-place, if their hunger was ever so great, or the game ever so delicious.
Who acts: beasts, hunger · What happens: hear, see, lay, not tempt, be, twang · To what, where: twang, glitter, hiding place, arrow
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beasts, hunger), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 heard | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 twang | det |
| 5 | twang | twang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 arrow | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 arrow | det |
| 8 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 twang | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 glitter | det |
| 12 | glitter | glitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 spear | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 spear | det |
| 15 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glitter | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 off | punct |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 off | advmod |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 off | advmod |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 off | advmod |
| 20 | off | off | ADV | _ | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lay | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 23 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 off | advcl |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 still | advmod |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 lay | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 tempted | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 tempted | cc |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 tempted | aux:pass |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 tempted | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 tempted | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 tempted | aux:pass |
| 32 | tempted | tempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 place | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 place | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 place | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 hiding | punct |
| 37 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tempted | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 great | punct |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 45 great | mark |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 41 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 great | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 great | cop |
| 43 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 45 great | advmod |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 great | advmod |
| 45 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tempted | parataxis |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 game | punct |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 49 game | cc |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 game | det |
| 49 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 great | conj |
| 50 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 52 delicious | advmod |
| 51 | so | so | ADV | _ | 52 delicious | advmod |
| 52 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 game | amod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | beasts = beast | the twang of a arrow | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer twang=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | beasts = beast not said here | the glitter of a spear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glitter=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lay | present | beasts = beast | still | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not tempt | past · passive | beasts's hiding place | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 5 | is | past | beasts's hunger | ever | great property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | twang | a arrow | nom twang «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | hunger | beasts = beast | nom hunger «state intransitive»: 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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