The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 12

Well, the man was amazed when he heard that the people were stupid enough to follow the voice, though they knew that if they went when it called them they would never return.

Who acts: man, people, answer · What happens: be, hear, follow, know, go, call · To what, where: voice, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, people, answer), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 amazed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 amazed	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 amazed	cop
6	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 heard	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 amazed	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 stupid	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stupid	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stupid	cop
14	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 heard	ccomp
15	enough	enough	ADV	_	14 stupid	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 follow	mark
17	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stupid	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 voice	det
19	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 follow	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knew	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 knew	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knew	nsubj
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 amazed	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 went	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 went	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 knew	ccomp
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 called	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 called	nsubj
30	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 went	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 called	obj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 return	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 return	aux
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 return	advmod
35	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 called	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 amazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the man		amazed property	tree rules
2	hear	past	man			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the people		enough, stupid property	tree rules
4	follow	to-infinitive	the people not said here	the voice		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme
5	know	past	people			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	go a condition, not said to happen	past	people			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	call	past	answer	people		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
8	not return	would	people			vn escape-51.1-1 «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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