The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 72

And as he climbed he heard behind him scoffs and jeers, but he kept his ears steadily closed to them.

Who acts: man · What happens: climb, hear, keep, close · To what, where: scoffs, ears

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 climbed	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 climbed	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	nsubj
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	ccomp
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obl
9	scoffs	scoff	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 jeers	cc
11	jeers	jeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 scoffs	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kept	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 kept	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kept	nsubj
15	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ears	nmod:poss
17	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 closed	nsubj:pass
18	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	19 closed	advmod
19	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 kept	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 closed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	climb	past	man				tree rules
2	hear	past	man	scoffs and jeers		behind giant	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer scoff=Stimulus
3	keep	past	man				tree rules
4	close	participle · passive		man's ears	scoffs = scoff	steadily property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to they=Recipient

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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