The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 89

The girls heard the grating noise, but fancying it was a mouse, paid no attention, and Becasigue was left in peace to pursue his work.

Who acts: girls, noise, Becasigue · What happens: hear, fancy, be, pay, leave, pursue · To what, where: grating noise, mouse, attention, Becasigue, peace, work

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, noise, Becasigue), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girls	det
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 noise	det
5	grating	grating	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 noise	compound
6	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fancying	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 fancying	cc
9	fancying	fancy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heard	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mouse	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mouse	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mouse	det
13	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fancying	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 paid	punct
15	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 attention	det
17	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 paid	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 left	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 left	cc
20	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 left	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 left	aux:pass
22	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 heard	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 peace	case
24	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 left	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 pursue	mark
26	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 left	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 work	nmod:poss
28	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pursue	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	the girls	the grating noise		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	fancy	gerund	the girls not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	noise	a mouse		tree rules
4	pay	past	the girls not said here	no attention		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
5	leave	past · passive		Becasigue	peace	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in peace=Location
6	pursue	to-infinitive		Becasigue's work		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
7	work		Becasigue			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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