The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 40

But as he went, a laugh, which yet was something of a bleat, rang in his ears, and though he tried not to hear, the words reached him, ‘Oh, dear!

Who acts: sheep, laugh, words · What happens: go, be, ring, try, not hear, reach · To what, where: laugh, something, ears, sheep

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 (sheep, laugh, words), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 rang	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 rang	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 laugh	det
7	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 something	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 something	nsubj
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 something	advmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 something	cop
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 laugh	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 bleat	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bleat	det
15	bleat	bleat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 something	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
17	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 ears	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 ears	nmod:poss
20	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rang	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tried	cc
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 tried	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tried	nsubj
25	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 rang	conj
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 hear	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 hear	mark
28	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tried	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 reached	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 words	det
31	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 reached	nsubj
32	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 rang	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 reached	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 dear	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 dear	punct
36	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	38 dear	discourse
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Oh	punct
38	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 reached	parataxis
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 rang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	sheep	a laugh				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	a laugh	something		yet	of a bleat	tree rules
3	ring	past			sheep's ears			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
4	try	past	sheep					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	not hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	sheep not said here					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	reach	past	the words	sheep				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=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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