The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 68
Suddenly, close behind them, they heard a sigh, then a groan.
Who acts: you, eyes · What happens: close, hear · To what, where: sigh
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, eyes), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 close | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 close | punct |
| 3 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 close | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 close | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sigh | det |
| 10 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 groan | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 groan | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 groan | det |
| 14 | groan | groan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sigh | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | imperative | you not said here | behind eyes = eye; suddenly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | eyes = eye | a sigh | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sigh=Stimulus |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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