The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 80

Very soon he heard a 'sh-'sh of the leaves, and there was the Stalo pushing his way through the undergrowth to see what chance he had of a dinner.

Who acts: Patto, sh, Stalo · What happens: hear, sh, be, push, see, have · To what, where: way, undergrowth, chance

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Patto, sh, Stalo), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 heard	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sh	det
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 sh	punct
7	sh	sh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sh	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sh	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 sh	punct
10	sh	sh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 leaves	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leaves	det
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sh	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 was	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Stalo	det
19	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
20	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 Stalo	acl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 way	nmod:poss
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pushing	obj
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 undergrowth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 undergrowth	det
25	undergrowth	undergrowth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pushing	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pushing	advcl
28	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	29 chance	det
29	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 chance	acl:relcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 dinner	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 dinner	det
34	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Patto			soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	sh		sh			of the leaves	tree rules
3	be	past	the Stalo		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	push	gerund	the Stalo not said here	Patto's way	the undergrowth		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme through undergrowth=Trajectory
5	see	to-infinitive	the Stalo not said here	what chance			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus
6	have	past	Patto	what chance not said here		of a dinner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=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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