The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 98
“What do you want?” he roared out from afar, and they froze as they heard.
Who acts: you, Wind, brothers · What happens: want, roar out, freeze, hear · To what, where: afar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Wind, brothers), 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 want | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 want | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 roared | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 roared | nsubj |
| 9 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 roared | compound:prt |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 afar | case |
| 12 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 roared | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 froze | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 froze | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 froze | nsubj |
| 16 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 roared | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 heard | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 froze | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | roar out | past | Wind | afar | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | freeze | past | brothers = brother | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | brothers = brother | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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