The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 99
While he was waiting for the meat to cook he heard a sound of deep sighing close to him, and he said:
Who acts: lion, sound · What happens: wait, cook, hear, sigh, say · 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 (lion, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 waiting | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waiting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waiting | aux |
| 4 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 heard | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 meat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 meat | det |
| 7 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waiting | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cook | mark |
| 9 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 waiting | advcl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sound | det |
| 13 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 sighing | mark |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sighing | amod |
| 16 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 sound | acl |
| 17 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 sighing | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 close | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | parataxis |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | lion | for the meat | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cook | to-infinitive | lion not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | lion | a sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sigh | gerund | a sound not said here | close property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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.
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