The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 26
As he spoke he heard the voices give a mocking laugh; but the old woman took no notice, and only bade the knight follow her.
Who acts: gentleman, voices, old woman, bade · What happens: speak, hear, give, take, follow · To what, where: mocking laugh, notice, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, voices, old woman, bade), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voices | det |
| 7 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 give | nsubj |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 laugh | det |
| 10 | mocking | mocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laugh | compound |
| 11 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 notice | det |
| 19 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 follow | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 follow | cc |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 bade | advmod |
| 23 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 follow | nsubj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 knight | det |
| 25 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 follow | nsubj |
| 26 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 took | parataxis |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 follow | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | gentleman | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | gentleman | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | give | present | the voices | a mocking laugh | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the old woman | no notice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 5 | follow | infinitive | bade | woman | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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