The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 93
After that he departed, and went into the deserts, and as he was passing through a wood he heard a loud yelling.
Who acts: reward · What happens: depart, go, pass, hear · To what, where: deserts, wood, loud yelling
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 (reward), 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 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 departed | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 departed | nsubj |
| 4 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 departed | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 deserts | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 deserts | det |
| 10 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 heard | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 passing | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 passing | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 passing | aux |
| 16 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 heard | advcl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 passing | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 departed | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 yelling | det |
| 23 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 yelling | amod |
| 24 | yelling | yelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | reward | after that | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | reward not said here | the deserts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into desert=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | pass | past · progressive | reward | a wood | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | reward | a loud yelling | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer yelling=Stimulus |
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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