The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 29

Now the basket had a lid, so that he could not see what was inside, but he heard quite clearly strange noises, as if a sort of scuffling was going on.

Who acts: basket, Father, sort · What happens: have, not see, be, hear, go on, sort · To what, where: lid, strange noises, scuffling · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (basket, Father, sort), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 basket	det
3	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lid	det
6	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 see	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 see	advmod
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 inside	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 inside	cop
16	inside	inside	ADV	_	13 see	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 strange	advmod
22	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	23 strange	advmod
23	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 noises	amod
24	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 heard	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 going	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 going	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 going	mark
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 sort	det
29	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 going	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 scuffling	case
31	scuffling	scuffling	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sort	nmod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 going	aux
33	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 heard	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	33 going	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the basket	a lid	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient
2	not see	could	Father				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past				inside property	tree rules
4	hear	past	Father	strange noises			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
5	go on a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	a sort of scuffling				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sort			scuffling			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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