The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 66
A neighbour passing by called out to him—“Hi!
Who acts: neighbour · What happens: pass, call out · To what, where: baby
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbour), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 neighbour | det |
| 2 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 neighbour | acl |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 called | mark |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 passing | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 called | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 called | obl |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 neighbour | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hi | punct |
| 11 | Hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 2 neighbour | discourse |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 neighbour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | a neighbour not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | a neighbour not said here | baby | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to 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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