The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 63
He ceased playing, and listened to what they were saying, for he understood their language.
Who acts: Trusty, heart · What happens: cease, play, listen, say, understand · To what, where: language · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trusty, heart), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ceased | nsubj |
| 2 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 ceased | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 listened | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 listened | cc |
| 6 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ceased | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 listened | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saying | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saying | aux |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 understood | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 understood | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 understood | nsubj |
| 15 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 listened | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 language | nmod:poss |
| 17 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 understood | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | Trusty | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | play | gerund | Trusty not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | listen | past | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | heart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | understand | past | Trusty | heart's language | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=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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