The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 82

At noon one day Owen heard a sound of arms outside the castle, and he asked of the maiden what it was.

Who acts: Owen, sound · What happens: hear, ask, be · To what, where: sound · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owen, sound), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noon	conj
5	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 day	appos
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sound	det
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 arms	case
10	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sound	nmod
11	outside	outside	ADP	_	13 castle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arms	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asked	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	parataxis
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 maiden	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 maiden	det
20	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 asked	xcomp
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 asked	ccomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 what	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	cop
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past		a sound of arms outside the castle	noon		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	past	Owen			maiden property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	sound				tree rules

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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