The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 45
The next day the gardener’s son heard a great noise in the street, and the King’s heralds passed, blowing all kinds of instruments, and crying:
Who acts: next day, heralds · What happens: hear, pass, blow, cry · To what, where: great noise, street, kinds
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next day, heralds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gardener | det |
| 5 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 gardener | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 noise | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 noise | amod |
| 11 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 street | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 street | det |
| 14 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 passed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 passed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 heralds | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 King | case |
| 20 | heralds | herald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 passed | nsubj |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 blowing | punct |
| 23 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 passed | advcl |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 kinds | det |
| 25 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 blowing | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 instruments | case |
| 27 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kinds | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 crying | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 crying | cc |
| 30 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 heard | conj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the next day the gardener's son | a great noise | the street | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pass | past | the King's heralds | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | blow | gerund | the King's heralds not said here | all kinds of instruments | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | the next day the gardener's son not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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