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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 32

But there was nothing; only, on the other side, he saw two girls cooking, and though he shouted to them at the top of his voice, they were too far off to hear what he said.

Who acts: nothing, cat, girls, two girls · What happens: be, see, shout, hear, say, cook · To what, where: other side, cooking, girls, top · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, cat, girls, two girls), 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

ccexplparataxisnsubjpunctadvmodpunctcasedetamodoblpunctnsubjnummodnmod:possobjpunctccmarknsubjconjcaseoblcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctnsubjcopadvmodadvmodparataxismarkadvclobjnsubjccomppunctrootButCCONJtherePRONwasVERBnothingPRON;PUNCTonlyADV,PUNCTonADPtheDETotherADJsideNOUN,PUNCThePRONsawVERBtwoNUMgirlsNOUNcookingNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthoughSCONJhePRONshoutedVERBtoADPthemPRONatADPtheDETtopNOUNofADPhisPRONvoiceNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONwereAUXtooADVfarADVoffADVtoPARThearVERBwhatPRONhePRONsaidVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_3 wascc
2theretherePRONPronType=Dem3 wasexpl
3wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 sawparataxis
4nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg3 wasnsubj
5;;PUNCT_11 sidepunct
6onlyonlyADV_11 sideadvmod
7,,PUNCT_11 sidepunct
8ononADP_11 sidecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 sidedet
10otherotherADJDegree=Pos11 sideamod
11sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing3 wasobl
12,,PUNCT_14 sawpunct
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 sawnsubj
14sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
15twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card16 girlsnummod
16girlsgirlNOUNNumber=Plur17 cookingnmod:poss
17cookingcookingNOUNNumber=Sing14 sawobj
18,,PUNCT_22 shoutedpunct
19andandCCONJ_22 shoutedcc
20thoughthoughSCONJ_22 shoutedmark
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 shoutednsubj
22shoutedshoutVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 sawconj
23totoADP_24 themcase
24themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs22 shoutedobl
25atatADP_27 topcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 topdet
27toptopNOUNNumber=Sing22 shoutedobl
28ofofADP_30 voicecase
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 voicenmod:poss
30voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing27 topnmod
31,,PUNCT_36 offpunct
32theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs36 offnsubj
33werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 offcop
34tootooADV_35 faradvmod
35farfarADVDegree=Pos36 offadvmod
36offoffADV_14 sawparataxis
37totoPART_38 hearmark
38hearhearVERBVerbForm=Inf36 offadvcl
39whatwhatPRONPronType=Int41 saidobj
40hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 saidnsubj
41saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 hearccomp
42..PUNCT_14 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepastnothingthe other side; therevn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
2seepastcattwo girls's cookingvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cooking=Stimulus
3shout speech: expresspastcatgirls = girlthe top of cat's voicevn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
4ispastgirls = girlfar, off propertytree rules
5hearto-infinitivegirls = girl not said herevn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6say speech: assertpastcatvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
7cooktwo girlsnom cooking «act intransitive»: 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 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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