The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 7

He had only just finished when his ears caught the sound of breaking branches; and he cried: 'Quick! quick! here comes the master of the garden!'

Who acts: garden, ears · What happens: have, finish, catch, break, cry, come · To what, where: sound, master

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, ears), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 comes	csubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 finished	advmod
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 finished	advmod
5	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 caught	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ears	nmod:poss
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 caught	nsubj
9	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sound	det
11	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caught	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 branches	case
13	breaking	break	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 branches	amod
14	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sound	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cried	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cried	nsubj
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Quick	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 Quick	punct
21	Quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cried	advmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 quick	punct
23	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Quick	conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 Quick	punct
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 Quick	advmod
26	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 master	det
28	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 comes	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 garden	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 garden	det
31	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 master	nmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 comes	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	garden		tree rules
2	finish	past	garden not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	catch	past	garden's ears	the sound of breaking branches	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
4	break	gerund			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	cry speech: express	past	garden		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	present		the master of the garden	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location master=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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