The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 12

Very soon they both might have been heard snoring, and Pinkel knew that his time was come.

Who acts: Pinkel · What happens: hear, know, come · To what, where: witch, time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pinkel), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 heard	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj:pass
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 they	appos
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 heard	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 heard	aux:pass
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	snoring	snoring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 knew	cc
12	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 time	nmod:poss
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux:pass
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 knew	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	might · perfect · passive		witch	soon property	tree rules
2	know	past	Pinkel			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come	past · passive		Pinkel's time		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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