Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 97

But he heard some one calling, and, looking back, saw the nobleman beckoning to him; he wanted to ask him something.

Who acts: man, nobleman · What happens: hear, look back, see, beckon, want, ask · To what, where: one calling, nobleman, man, something

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, nobleman), 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	_	3 heard	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 calling	det
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 calling	nummod
6	calling	calling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looking	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looking	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looking	punct
10	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heard	advcl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 looking	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 nobleman	det
15	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
16	beckoning	beckon	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 nobleman	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 beckoning	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 wanted	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wanted	nsubj
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 ask	mark
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wanted	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ask	obj
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 ask	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	hear	past	man	some one calling		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer calling=Stimulus
2	look back	gerund	man not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	past	man not said here	the nobleman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nobleman=Stimulus
4	beckon	gerund	the nobleman not said here		man	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	want	past	man			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	something	man	tree rules

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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