The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 57

The barber, who went home whistling and congratulating himself on the escape he had made, described what had happened, and it was noised abroad in the country that the people who had gone away, and had never returned, had all fallen into that pit; for till then they had never known what had happened to those who had heard the voice and obeyed its call.

Who acts: barber, people, escape · What happens: go, whistle, congratulate, make, describe, happen · To what, where: barber, escape, country, pit, people, voice · 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 (barber, people, escape), 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	46 fallen	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 barber	acl:relcl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	whistling	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 went	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 congratulating	cc
9	congratulating	congratulate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 whistling	conj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 congratulating	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 escape	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 escape	det
13	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 congratulating	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 made	aux
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 escape	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 described	punct
18	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 made	parataxis
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 happened	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 happened	aux
21	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 described	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 noised	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 noised	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 noised	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 noised	aux:pass
26	noised	noise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 went	conj
27	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	26 noised	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 country	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 country	det
30	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 noised	obl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 gone	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 people	det
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 gone	nsubj
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 gone	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 gone	aux
36	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 noised	advcl
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 gone	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 returned	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 returned	cc
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 returned	aux
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 returned	advmod
42	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 went	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 barber	punct
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 fallen	aux
45	all	all	ADV	_	46 fallen	advmod
46	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
47	into	into	ADP	_	49 pit	case
48	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 pit	det
49	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fallen	obl
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 known	punct
51	for	for	ADP	_	53 then	case
52	till	till	ADP	_	53 then	case
53	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	57 known	obl
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 known	nsubj:pass
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 known	aux
56	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	57 known	advmod
57	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 fallen	conj
58	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	60 happened	nsubj
59	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 happened	aux
60	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 known	xcomp
61	to	to	ADP	_	62 those	case
62	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	60 happened	obl
63	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	65 heard	nsubj
64	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 heard	aux
65	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	62 those	acl:relcl
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 voice	det
67	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 heard	obj
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 obeyed	cc
69	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 happened	conj
70	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	71 call	nmod:poss
71	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 obeyed	obj
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the barber			home property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	whistle	gerund	the barber not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	congratulate	gerund	the barber not said here	barber	the escape		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	make	past · perfect	barber	the escape not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Product
5	describe	participle					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	noise	past · passive		escape	the country	abroad property	tree rules
8	go away	past · perfect	the people			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	not return	past · perfect	the barber not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	fall	past · perfect	the barber			into that pit result; all property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pit=Result
11	not know	past · perfect · passive		people			tree rules
12	happen	past · perfect				to those	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	hear	past · perfect		the voice			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
14	obey	past		escape's call			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme
15	call		escape				nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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