The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 71
She was within sight of her mother’s house when she heard in the meadow on the right, the voice of a donkey loudly braying.
Who acts: Peppina, voice · What happens: be, hear, bray · To what, where: meadow
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peppina, voice), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sight | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sight | cop |
| 3 | within | within | ADP | _ | 4 sight | case |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sight | nmod |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 heard | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sight | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 meadow | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 meadow | det |
| 15 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 right | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 right | det |
| 18 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 voice | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 voice | det |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 right | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 donkey | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 donkey | det |
| 24 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 voice | nmod |
| 25 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 26 braying | advmod |
| 26 | braying | bray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 voice | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Peppina | within sight; of Peppina's mother's house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Peppina | the meadow | on the right and the voice of a donkey | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | bray | gerund | the voice of a donkey not said here | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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