The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 59

“Hark!” said he, “that must be an owl in great trouble, I am sure it has gone into a snare”; and he began to hunt about, and presently found a great net which some bird-catchers had spread the night before.

Who acts: Hark, that, owl · What happens: say, be, go, begin, hunt, find · To what, where: owl, great trouble, snare, great net, bird catchers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hark, that, owl), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Hark	Hark	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hark	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hark	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 owl	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 owl	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 owl	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 owl	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 owl	cop
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 owl	det
13	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 trouble	case
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 trouble	amod
16	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 owl	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sure	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 sure	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sure	cop
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gone	nsubj
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 gone	aux
23	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 sure	ccomp
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 snare	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 snare	det
26	snare	snare	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gone	obl
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 snare	punct
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 began	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 began	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 began	nsubj
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 hunt	mark
33	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 began	xcomp
34	about	about	ADV	_	33 hunt	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 found	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 found	cc
37	presently	presently	ADV	_	38 found	advmod
38	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 net	det
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 net	amod
41	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 found	obj
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 spread	obj
43	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	46 catchers	det
44	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 catchers	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 bird	punct
46	catchers	catcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 spread	nsubj:pass
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 spread	aux
48	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 net	acl:relcl
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 night	det
50	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 spread	obl:unmarked
51	before	before	ADV	_	48 spread	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hark					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	must	that	a owl	great trouble			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	Hark				sure property	tree rules
4	go in a quote	present · perfect	owl		a snare			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into snare=Initial_Location
5	begin	past	Hark					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	hunt	to-infinitive	Hark not said here				about property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	find	past	Hark not said here	a great net			presently property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Topic
8	spread	past · perfect · passive		some bird catchers		night	before property	tree rules

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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