The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 101

A moment now and he would have gained it, when, through the groans and yells, he heard his brothers’ voices.

Who acts: man, moment · What happens: gain, hear · To what, where: top, voices

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, moment), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 moment	det
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 gained	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gained	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gained	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 gained	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 gained	aux
8	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 moment	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gained	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 heard	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 groans	punct
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 groans	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 groans	det
15	groans	groan	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 heard	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 yells	cc
17	yells	yell	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 groans	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 groans	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 brothers	nmod:poss
22	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 voices	nmod:poss
23	’	's	PART	_	22 brothers	case
24	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 heard	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gain	would · perfect	man	top			now		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	hear	past	a moment	man's brothers's voices					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=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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