The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 45
The barber and the other people in the shop listened to him with amazement.
Who acts: barber · What happens: listen · To what, where: voice
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 (barber), 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 | 2 barber | det |
| 2 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 people | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 barber | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 shop | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shop | det |
| 9 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 people | nmod |
| 10 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 listened | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 amazement | case |
| 14 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 listened | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the barber and the other people in the shop | voice | with amazement | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=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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