The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 52

“Oh, it is not likely we shall hear any noises in such a quiet place,” answered he, and fell sound asleep.

Who acts: it, we · What happens: not be, hear, answer, fall · To what, where: noises, quiet place, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, we), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 likely	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 likely	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 likely	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 likely	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 likely	advmod
7	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	aux
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 likely	ccomp
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 noises	det
12	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hear	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 place	case
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 place	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 place	det
16	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 place	amod
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hear	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 likely	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 likely	punct
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 likely	parataxis
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 answered	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 likely	conj
25	sound	sound	ADV	_	26 asleep	advmod
26	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fell	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 likely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	it				likely property	tree rules
2	hear in a quote	shall	we	any noises		such quiet place		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
3	answer speech: assert	past			husband			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
4	fall	past					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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