The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 63

Thus, in the evening, no one was surprised to hear the wretched shrieks and cries of Cassim’s wife and Morgiana, telling everyone that Cassim was dead.

Who acts: one · What happens: be, hear, tell, shriek · To what, where: wretched shrieks, everyone, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	10 surprised	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 evening	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 evening	det
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 surprised	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 evening	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 surprised	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 surprised	cop
10	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hear	mark
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 surprised	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shrieks	det
14	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shrieks	amod
15	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hear	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cries	cc
17	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 shrieks	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 wife	case
19	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 wife	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Cassim	case
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shrieks	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Morgiana	cc
23	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 wife	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 telling	punct
25	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 surprised	parataxis
26	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 telling	iobj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 dead	nsubj
28	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 dead	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dead	cop
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 everyone	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no one			evening	surprised, thus property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	no one not said here	the wretched shrieks of Cassim's wife and Morgiana and cries				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shriek=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	gerund			everyone			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
4	is	past					dead property	tree rules
5	shriek			Cassim's wife and Morgiana				nom shriek «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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