The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 54
Next morning the hunt began again, and as soon as the little Roe heard the horns and the ‘Ho! ho!’ of the huntsmen, he could not rest another moment, and said:
Who acts: hunt, little Roe · What happens: begin, hear, not rest, say · To what, where: horns · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunt, little Roe), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hunt | det |
| 4 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 began | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heard | cc |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 heard | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 heard | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Roe | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Roe | amod |
| 14 | Roe | Roe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 horns | det |
| 17 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heard | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ho | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ho | det |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 ho | punct |
| 21 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ho | compound |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 Ho | punct |
| 23 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 horns | conj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 ho | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 ho | punct |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 huntsmen | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 huntsmen | det |
| 28 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ho | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rest | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 rest | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 rest | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 rest | advmod |
| 33 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 heard | conj |
| 34 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 moment | det |
| 35 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rest | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 said | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 said | cc |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | parataxis |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the hunt | again; morning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the little Roe | the horns and the Ho ho of the huntsmen | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer horn=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not rest | could | hunt | moment | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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