The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 37
On hearing these words the brother stopped and asked, ‘Where did he find such a woman?’
Who acts: brother · What happens: hear, stop, ask, find · To what, where: words, woman
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 find | advcl |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brother | det |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | nsubj |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 words | acl:relcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stopped | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 12 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 find | advmod |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 woman | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | brother not said here | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the brother | this words not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector word=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the brother not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find | past · do-support | brother | such woman | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |
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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