The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 14

Presently they heard a great outcry within and the jogi’s voice crying aloud for help; but they dared not enter, for had they not been told that whatever the noise, they must not come in?

Who acts: pupils, voice · What happens: hear, cry, enter, not tell, not come in · To what, where: great outcry, pupils, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pupils, voice), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 heard	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 outcry	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 outcry	amod
6	outcry	outcry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
7	within	within	ADP	_	12 voice	case
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 voice	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jogi	det
10	jogi	jogi	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 voice	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 jogi	case
12	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obl
13	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 voice	acl
14	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	13 crying	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 help	case
16	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crying	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 enter	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 enter	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 enter	nsubj
20	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 enter	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 dared	advmod
22	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 told	mark
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 told	aux
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	nsubj:pass
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 told	advmod
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 told	aux:pass
29	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 enter	advcl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 whatever	mark
31	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 told	iobj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 noise	det
33	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 whatever	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 come	punct
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 come	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 come	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 come	advmod
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	conj
39	in	in	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	pupils = pupil	a great outcry		within the jogi's voice; presently property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer outcry=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the jogi's voice not said here			for help; aloud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient
3	enter	past	pupils = pupil				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		pupils = pupil	whatever		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient whatever=Topic
5	not come in	must	pupils = pupil				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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