The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 18

As he passed the door, he heard a sound of sobbing, and being a good-natured man he stopped to listen, thinking that perhaps he might be able to give some help.

Who acts: king · What happens: pass, hear, be, stop, listen, think · To what, where: door, sound, natured man, help · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 passed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sound	det
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 sobbing	case
12	sobbing	sobbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sound	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 man	cc
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 man	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 natured	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
19	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stopped	nsubj
22	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 man	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 listen	mark
24	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 stopped	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thinking	punct
26	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 listen	advcl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 able	mark
28	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	32 able	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 able	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 able	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 able	cop
32	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thinking	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 give	mark
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 able	xcomp
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 help	det
36	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 give	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	past	king	the door		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Trajectory
2	hear	past	king	a sound of sobbing		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
3	is a	gerund		a natured man		tree rules
4	stop	past	king	a natured man not said here		tree rules
5	listen	to-infinitive	king not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	gerund	king not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	might	king		able, perhaps property	tree rules
8	give	to-infinitive	king not said here	some help		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=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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