The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 29
Another year passed by, and one morning when the maiden was out with her pigs she heard a groan which sounded quite human.
Who acts: maiden, Lion, groan · What happens: pass by, be, hear, sound · To what, where: year, groan
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, Lion, groan), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 year | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 morning | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 morning | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 morning | nummod |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 out | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 out | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 out | cop |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 heard | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 pigs | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pigs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 out | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 groan | det |
| 20 | groan | groan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sounded | nsubj |
| 22 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 groan | acl:relcl |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 human | advmod |
| 24 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sounded | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | another year not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the maiden | with Lion's pigs; out property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | Lion | a groan | morning; year | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer groan=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | sound | past | a groan | human property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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