The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 23

Surely I hear him snore,' he thought; and he stole to the place where Isuro was lying on a pile of wood, but the rabbit's eyes were wide open.

Who acts: I, Gudu, Isuro, eyes · What happens: hear, snore, think, steal, lie, be · To what, where: Gudu, pile

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 (I, Gudu, Isuro, eyes), 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	Surely	surely	ADV	_	3 hear	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	obj
5	snore	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hear	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snore	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 stole	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stole	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stole	nsubj
13	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 place	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 place	det
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stole	obl
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 lying	advmod
18	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lying	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lying	aux
20	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 place	acl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 pile	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pile	det
23	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lying	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 wood	case
25	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pile	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 open	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 open	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rabbit	det
29	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 eyes	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 rabbit	case
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 open	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 open	cop
33	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 open	advmod
34	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stole	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present	I	Gudu		surely property	tree rules
2	snore	infinitive	Gudu not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	Gudu				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	steal	past	Gudu			to the place	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lie	past · progressive	Isuro		a pile of wood		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pile=Location
6	is	past	the rabbit's eyes			open property	tree rules

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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