The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 78

‘Yes; I heard something like a foal neighing quite plainly a long, long way off,’ answered the youth.

Who acts: I · What happens: hear, neigh, answer · To what, where: something, long long way, youth

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 heard	discourse
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 heard	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 foal	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 foal	det
9	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 something	nmod
10	neighing	neigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 something	acl
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 plainly	advmod
12	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	10 neighing	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 way	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 long	punct
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 neighing	obl:unmarked
18	off	off	ADV	_	17 way	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 youth	det
23	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 answered	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	something	like a foal	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
2	neigh	gerund		a long long way	plainly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past	I not said here	the youth		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality

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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