The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 71

And he went on listening to the music.

Who acts: heather · What happens: go, listen

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heather), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 listening	mark
5	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 music	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 music	det
8	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 listening	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	heather						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	listen	gerund	heather not said here					to the music	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=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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