The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 41
Though Cerisette and her mother could of course see nothing of what was going on outside, they heard plainly the shouts of welcome from the crowds along the streets.
Who acts: Cerisette, guards · What happens: see, go on, hear, shout · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cerisette, guards), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 2 | Cerisette | Cerisette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 see | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mother | cc |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Cerisette | conj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 9 see | advmod |
| 8 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 of | fixed |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | advcl |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 what | case |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 nothing | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 going | compound:prt |
| 16 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 14 going | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 22 shouts | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shouts | det |
| 22 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | ccomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 welcome | case |
| 24 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shouts | obl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 crowds | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 crowds | det |
| 27 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 welcome | nmod |
| 28 | along | along | ADP | _ | 30 streets | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 streets | det |
| 30 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 crowds | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | Cerisette and Cerisette's mother | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go on | past · progressive | outside property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | guards = guard | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | present | of welcome from the crowds along the streets; plainly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP 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 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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