The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 88
For some time he let them rail, and pushed boldly on, till he had passed the place which his brother had gained; then suddenly he thought that among the scoffing sounds he heard his brother’s voice.
Who acts: man · What happens: let, push, pass, gain, think, sound · To what, where: jests, place, that, voice
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pushed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pushed | cc |
| 10 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | conj |
| 11 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 on | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 10 pushed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 passed | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 passed | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 passed | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 passed | aux |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 pushed | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | obj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 gained | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gained | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gained | aux |
| 24 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 place | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 thought | punct |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 thought | advmod |
| 27 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 29 thought | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 thought | nsubj |
| 29 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | conj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 thought | obj |
| 31 | among | among | ADP | _ | 33 scoffing | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 scoffing | det |
| 33 | scoffing | scoffing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sounds | obl |
| 34 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 thought | parataxis |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 heard | nsubj |
| 36 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 sounds | ccomp |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 brother | nmod:poss |
| 38 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 voice | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 brother | case |
| 40 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 heard | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | man | jests = jest | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient rail=Theme | |||
| 2 | push | past | man not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect | man | the place | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | gain | past · perfect · passive | the place | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | man | that | then | suddenly property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||
| 6 | sound | present | among the scoffing | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | hear | past | man | man's brother's voice | 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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