The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 93
For a long time the child sat sobbing, and the noise was heard by the king as he was driving by.
Who acts: child, king, noise · What happens: sit, sob, hear, drive · To what, where: noise
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, king, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | sobbing | sob | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sat | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 heard | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 noise | det |
| 12 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | aux:pass |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sat | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 driving | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 driving | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 driving | aux |
| 21 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 heard | parataxis |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 driving | fixed |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the child | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sob | gerund | the child not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | the king | the noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | drive | past · progressive | noise | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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