The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 78

After Ian, the fisher’s son, had eaten all he wanted, he hid himself behind a great cask, and very soon he heard a noise, as of men coming through the heather, and the small twigs snapping under their feet.

Who acts: son, men, small twigs · What happens: eat, want, hide, hear, come, snap · To what, where: all, son, great cask, noise, heather, feet

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, men, small twigs), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 Ian	case
2	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 eaten	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ian	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fisher	det
5	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 fisher	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ian	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ian	punct
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eaten	aux
10	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 eaten	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 all	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hid	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hid	nsubj
16	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eaten	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 hid	obj
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	21 cask	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cask	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cask	amod
21	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hid	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 heard	cc
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 soon	advmod
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 heard	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heard	nsubj
27	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eaten	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 noise	det
29	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 men	punct
31	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	33 men	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 as	fixed
33	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 heard	obj
34	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 men	acl
35	through	through	ADP	_	37 heather	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 heather	det
37	heather	heather	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 coming	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 twigs	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 twigs	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 twigs	det
41	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 twigs	amod
42	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 heard	obl
43	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 twigs	acl
44	under	under	ADP	_	46 feet	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 feet	nmod:poss
46	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 snapping	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect		all		after Ian		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient
2	want	past	son					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	hide	past	son	son	a great cask			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind cask=Location
4	hear	past	son	a noise			the small twigs obl; soon property	tree rules
5	come	gerund	men not said here		the heather			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through heather=Initial_Location
6	snap	gerund	the small twigs not said here		men's feet			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location

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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