The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 32
Toward evening she heard the raven’s “craa, craa,” from the pine tree and eagerly hastened thither to hear the answer.
Who acts: thread · What happens: hear, hasten · To what, where: craa, pine tree, answer
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread), 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 | Toward | toward | ADP | _ | 2 evening | case |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 raven | det |
| 6 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 craa | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 raven | case |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 craa | punct |
| 9 | craa | craa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 craa | punct |
| 11 | craa | craa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 craa | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ” | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 craa | punct |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 16 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | compound |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hastened | cc |
| 19 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 20 hastened | advmod |
| 20 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 21 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 20 hastened | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 hear | mark |
| 23 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hastened | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 answer | det |
| 25 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hear | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | thread | the raven's craa and craa | the pine tree | evening | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent craa=Topic from tree=Source | ||
| 2 | hasten | participle | thread not said here | eagerly, thither property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hear | to-infinitive | thread not said here | the answer | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer answer=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 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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