The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 49
He was just about to give it up when he overheard two men whispering, and one laughed softly, and peering behind a pillar, he saw two Afghan horsedealers counting out his bag of money!
Who acts: Moti, one, two Afghan horsedealers · What happens: be, overhear, whisper, laugh, peer, see · To what, where: two men, two Afghan horsedealers, bag
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moti, one, two Afghan horsedealers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 about | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 give | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 give | compound:prt |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 overheard | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 overheard | nsubj |
| 11 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | advcl |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 men | nummod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 overheard | obj |
| 14 | whispering | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 overheard | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laughed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 laughed | cc |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 laughed | nsubj |
| 18 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | conj |
| 19 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 18 laughed | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 peering | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 peering | cc |
| 22 | peering | peer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 laughed | advcl |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 pillar | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pillar | det |
| 25 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 peering | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saw | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saw | nsubj |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 peering | conj |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 horsedealers | nummod |
| 30 | Afghan | Afghan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 horsedealers | amod |
| 31 | horsedealers | horsedealer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 saw | obj |
| 32 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 horsedealers | acl |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 counting | compound:prt |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bag | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 counting | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 money | case |
| 37 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bag | nmod |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Moti | about, give property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overhear | past | Moti | two men | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | Moti not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | laugh | past | one | softly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | peer | gerund | one not said here | behind a pillar | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind pillar=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | past | Moti | two Afghan horsedealers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horsedealer=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | count out | gerund | two Afghan horsedealers not said here | Moti's bag of money | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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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