The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 14

It was still quite dark when Isuro heard his name called very softly, and, on opening his eyes, beheld Gudu standing by him.

Who acts: baboon, Isuro, Gudu · What happens: be, hear, call, open, behold, stand · To what, where: name, eyes, Gudu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baboon, Isuro, Gudu), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 name	nmod:poss
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obj
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 name	acl
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 softly	advmod
13	softly	softly	ADV	_	11 called	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beheld	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 beheld	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	on	on	SCONJ	_	18 opening	mark
18	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 beheld	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 opening	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 opening	punct
22	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dark	conj
23	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 beheld	obj
24	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 beheld	advcl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 standing	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	baboon		still	dark property	tree rules
2	hear	past	Isuro	Gudu's name			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
3	call	participle		Gudu's name not said here		softly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	open	gerund		Gudu's eyes			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
5	behold	participle	baboon not said here	Gudu			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gudu=Stimulus
6	stand	gerund	baboon not said here			by Gudu	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location
7	name		Gudu				nom name «communication transitive»: 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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