The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 17
Then Ratibor heard with surprise that the bird was indeed calling him by name.
Who acts: Ratibor, bird · What happens: hear, call · To what, where: Ratibor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ratibor, bird), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Ratibor | Ratibor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 surprise | case |
| 5 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 calling | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calling | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 calling | aux |
| 10 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 11 calling | advmod |
| 11 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 calling | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 name | case |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calling | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Ratibor | then | with surprise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | call | past · progressive | the bird | Ratibor | by name; indeed property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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