The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 55

Michael could see nothing from his hiding-place, but he could hear everything, and he listened to the princesses laughing and jumping with pleasure.

Who acts: Michael · What happens: see, hear, listen, laugh, jump · To what, where: nothing, hiding place, everything

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 (Michael), 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	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 see	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 place	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 place	nmod:poss
7	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 place	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 hiding	punct
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hear	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 hear	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hear	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hear	aux
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	conj
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 hear	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 listened	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 listened	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 listened	nsubj
19	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 see	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 princesses	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 princesses	det
22	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 listened	obl
23	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 listened	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 jumping	cc
25	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 laughing	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 pleasure	case
27	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 jumping	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	could	Michael	nothing	Michael's hiding place		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	hear	could	Michael	everything			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
3	listen	past	Michael			to the princesses	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to princess=Theme
4	laugh	gerund	Michael not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	jump	gerund	Michael not said here			with pleasure	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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