The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 21

Nothing happened, so he hit again and then again until, presently, he heard a tired, far-away voice saying: 'Who is it that scratches my feet?'

Who acts: Nothing, Makoma · What happens: happen, hit, hear, say, be · To what, where: tired · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, Makoma), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hit	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 hit	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hit	nsubj
6	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	parataxis
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 hit	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 again	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 again	advmod
10	again	again	ADV	_	7 again	conj
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 hit	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
13	presently	presently	ADV	_	16 heard	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hit	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tired	det
18	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heard	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saying	punct
20	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 away	advmod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 far	punct
22	away	away	ADV	_	24 saying	advmod
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saying	compound
24	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 heard	advcl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 scratches	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 scratches	punct
27	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 scratches	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 scratches	cop
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 scratches	nsubj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 scratches	nsubj
31	scratches	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 saying	ccomp
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 feet	nmod:poss
33	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 scratches	obj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 scratches	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 scratches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Nothing				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hit	past	Makoma		again		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	Makoma	a tired		presently property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tired=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Makoma not said here			away property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is	present				scratch property	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: «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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