The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 62

The sounds pierced to the ears of a poor woodman, who instantly left his work, and with his hatchet under his arm came to listen to the music.

Who acts: sounds, sound · What happens: pierce, leave, come, listen, work · To what, where: sounds, work

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sounds, sound), 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 sounds	det
2	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 left	nsubj
3	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sounds	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 ears	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ears	det
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pierced	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 woodman	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woodman	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woodman	amod
10	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ears	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 left	nsubj
13	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	14 left	advmod
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 work	nmod:poss
16	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 hatchet	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hatchet	nmod:poss
21	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
22	under	under	ADP	_	24 arm	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 arm	nmod:poss
24	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hatchet	nmod
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 left	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 listen	mark
27	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 came	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 music	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 music	det
30	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 listen	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pierce	participle		the sounds not said here	to the ears of a poor woodman	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	leave	past	the sounds	sound's work	instantly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
3	come	past	the sounds not said here		with sound's hatchet under sound's arm	tree rules
4	listen	to-infinitive	the sounds not said here		to the music	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=Theme
5	work		sound			nom work «act intransitive»: 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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