The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 96
But he heard nothing but the rushing of the water and the moaning of the wind, and, disappointed, rode home.
Who acts: prince · What happens: hear, rush, ride · To what, where: nothing
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 (prince), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 heard | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 rushing | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rushing | det |
| 7 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 nothing | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rushing | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 moaning | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moaning | det |
| 13 | moaning | moaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 water | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wind | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wind | det |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moaning | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rode | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rode | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 and | punct |
| 20 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rode | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 disappointed | punct |
| 22 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 rode | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | prince | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rush | gerund | prince not said here | of the water and the moaning of the wind | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of water=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | prince not said here | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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