The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 39

Into the castle he ran, and the dogs after him, and long though their masters looked and listened, they neither saw nor heard aught concerning dogs or boar.

Who acts: castle, dogs · What happens: run, look, listen, see, hear · To what, where: castle, aught concerning dogs

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, dogs), 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	Into	into	ADP	_	3 castle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 castle	det
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looked	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dogs	det
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looked	nsubj
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dogs	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looked	cc
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 looked	advmod
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 looked	mark
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 masters	nmod:poss
17	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 listened	cc
20	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looked	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
23	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	26 heard	cc
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 saw	conj
27	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	29 dogs	compound
28	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dogs	amod
29	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 heard	obj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 boar	cc
31	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dogs	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	castle		into the castle result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into castle=Result
2	look	past	the dogs after castle		long property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	listen	past	the dogs after castle not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	see	past	dogs = dog			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	hear	past	dogs = dog not said here	aught concerning dogs or boar		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dog=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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