The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 17

About an hour later the blowing of a horn told her that dinner was ready.

Who acts: blowing, dinner · What happens: tell, be, blow · To what, where: power, horn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blowing, dinner), 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	About	about	ADV	_	3 hour	advmod
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 later	obl:unmarked
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 told	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 blowing	det
6	blowing	blowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 horn	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horn	det
9	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blowing	nmod
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 ready	mark
13	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ready	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ready	cop
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 told	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the blowing of a horn		power	late property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	past	dinner			ready property	tree rules
3	blow			a horn			nom blowing «process transitive»: of=patient

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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