The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 65
No sooner did it hear the sounds of hunting in the forest than it cried:
Who acts: wound · What happens: hear, cry · To what, where: sounds, forest
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 (wound), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 hear | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hear | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sounds | det |
| 7 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hear | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hunting | case |
| 9 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounds | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hunting | nmod |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 cried | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 forest | acl:relcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · do-support | wound | the sounds of hunting in the forest | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | wound | the forest not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Topic |
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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