The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 141

The wicked nurse and the boatman, who were by this time quite a long way off, heard Frisk barking, and said to each other:

Who acts: wicked nurse, Frisk · What happens: be, hear, bark, say · To what, where: Frisk, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked nurse, Frisk), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nurse	amod
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 boatman	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boatman	det
6	boatman	boatman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nurse	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 time	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 time	cop
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nurse	conj
13	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	16 way	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 off	obl
17	off	off	ADV	_	12 time	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nurse	punct
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	Frisk	frisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obj
21	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 Frisk	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 each	case
26	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	24 said	obl
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 each	fixed
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wicked nurse and the boatman and this time			by this time	off property	tree rules
2	hear	past	the wicked nurse and the boatman and this time	Frisk				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer frisk=Stimulus
3	bark	gerund	Frisk not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the wicked nurse and the boatman and this time not said here		each			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient

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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