The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 125

For three nights Lina neither saw nor heard anything extraordinary; on the fourth she heard a rustling among the diamond-spangled leaves of the wood.

Who acts: Lina · What happens: see, hear, spangle · To what, where: anything, rustling, fourth

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lina), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 nights	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 nights	nummod
3	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saw	obl
4	Lina	Lina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
5	neither	neither	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 heard	cc
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 heard	obj
10	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 anything	amod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 fourth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fourth	det
14	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 rustling	det
18	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obj
19	among	among	ADP	_	24 leaves	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 leaves	det
21	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spangled	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 diamond	punct
23	spangled	spangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 leaves	amod
24	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heard	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 wood	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wood	det
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leaves	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Lina			night	neither property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	hear	past	Lina not said here	anything				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
3	hear	past	Lina	a rustling	the fourth		among the spangled leaves of the wood	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustling=Stimulus
4	spangle	participle						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 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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