The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 96
Nothing he could see, but to his ears the notes of a pipe floated over the plain, and ever, as he listened, it drew nearer.
Who acts: Nothing, enemy, plain · What happens: see, float, listen, draw, note · To what, where: pipe, plain
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, enemy, plain), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ears | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 ears | cc |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ears | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ears | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 notes | det |
| 11 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ears | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pipe | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pipe | det |
| 14 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 notes | nmod |
| 15 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pipe | acl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 plain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 plain | det |
| 18 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floated | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ever | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ever | cc |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 ears | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 listened | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 listened | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 listened | nsubj |
| 25 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 drew | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 drew | nsubj |
| 28 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 listened | conj |
| 29 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 drew | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | Nothing | to enemy's ears and the notes of a pipe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | float | participle | a pipe not said here | the plain | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over plain=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | listen | past | enemy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | draw | past | plain | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | note | a pipe | nom note «communication 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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