The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 36

‘It is not much further,’ he thought to himself as he reached an avenue of walnut trees, when suddenly a voice spoke out from over his head, and made him jump.

Who acts: best, sheep, voice · What happens: be, think, reach, speak out, make, jump · To what, where: sheep, avenue, head

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best, sheep, voice), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 further	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 further	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 further	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 further	advmod
6	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 thought	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 further	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 further	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 thought	obl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 reached	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 reached	nsubj
15	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	advcl
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 avenue	det
17	avenue	avenue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reached	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 trees	case
19	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trees	compound
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 avenue	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spoke	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 spoke	advmod
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	26 spoke	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 voice	det
25	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spoke	nsubj
26	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 reached	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 spoke	compound:prt
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 head	case
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 head	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spoke	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 made	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 made	cc
34	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 made	obj
36	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 made	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	best = good				far property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	sheep		sheep			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	reach	past	sheep	a avenue of walnut trees				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent avenue=Theme
4	speak out speech: other	past	a voice			sheep's head	suddenly property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	past	sheep not said here	sheep				tree rules
6	jump	infinitive	sheep not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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