The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 76
Then he heard the voice, and turning to look found the knight galloping to meet him.
Who acts: sun, turning, knight · What happens: hear, turn, look, find, gallop, meet · To what, where: voice, knight, sun · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, turning, knight), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 8 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 found | csubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 turning | xcomp |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 knight | det |
| 13 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | galloping | gallop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 found | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 meet | mark |
| 16 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 galloping | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 meet | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | sun | the voice | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | find | past | turning | the knight | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent knight=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | gallop | gerund | the knight not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | meet | to-infinitive | the knight not said here | sun | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/30/76/