The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 34

When the people observed that I was quiet they discharged no more arrows, but by the noise I heard I knew that their number was increased; and about four yards from me, for more than an hour, there was a knocking, like people at work.

Who acts: people, I, four yards · What happens: observe, be, discharge, hear, know, increase · To what, where: more arrows, noise, number, knocking

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, I, four yards), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 observed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 observed	nsubj
4	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 discharged	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 quiet	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 quiet	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 quiet	cop
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 observed	xcomp
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 discharged	nsubj
10	discharged	discharge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	no	no	ADV	_	13 arrows	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 arrows	amod
13	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 discharged	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knew	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 knew	cc
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 noise	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 noise	det
18	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knew	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 noise	acl:relcl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 knew	nsubj
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 discharged	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 increased	mark
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 number	nmod:poss
25	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 increased	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 increased	aux:pass
27	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 knew	advcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 yards	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 yards	cc
30	about	about	ADV	_	31 four	advmod
31	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 yards	nummod
32	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 knocking	nsubj
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 yards	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hour	punct
36	for	for	ADP	_	40 hour	case
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	40 hour	advmod
38	than	than	ADP	_	37 more	fixed
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 hour	det
40	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 yards	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 was	punct
42	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 was	expl
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 knocking	cop
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 knocking	det
45	knocking	knocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 discharged	parataxis
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 people	punct
47	like	like	ADP	_	48 people	case
48	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 knocking	appos
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 work	case
50	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 people	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 discharged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	observe	past	the people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	I		quiet property	tree rules
3	discharge	past	people	more arrows		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme
4	hear	past	I	the noise not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
5	know	past	I		by the noise	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	increase	past · passive		strings's number		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
7	is a	past	four yards from me and a hour	a knocking		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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