The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 123
As he drew near it he heard someone singing so sweetly that he stood still spell-bound, and listened.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: draw, hear, sing, stand, listen · To what, where: tower, someone, spell bound
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 heard | obj |
| 9 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 someone | acl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 sweetly | advmod |
| 11 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 9 singing | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 stood | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 singing | advcl |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 bound | advmod |
| 16 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bound | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 spell | punct |
| 18 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 listened | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 listened | cc |
| 21 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Prince | tower | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Prince | someone | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | sweetly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | Prince | spell bound | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | listen | past | Prince not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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