The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 3

Then she heard a voice close to her saying, ‘Well?’ and turning she saw before her a handsome young man, who asked why she had come to steal his firewood.

Who acts: rosemary, handsome young man · What happens: hear, turn, see, ask, come, steal · To what, where: voice, handsome young man, firewood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rosemary, handsome young 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 heard	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 voice	det
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 voice	amod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 saying	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 saying	nmod:poss
9	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 close	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Well	punct
12	Well	well	INTJ	_	3 heard	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 Well	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 Well	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 turning	cc
16	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 Well	conj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 turning	ccomp
19	before	before	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	obl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
22	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 asked	nsubj
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 man	acl:relcl
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	31 come	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 asked	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 steal	mark
33	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 come	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 firewood	nmod:poss
35	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 steal	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hear	past	rosemary	a voice	then	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	turn	gerund	rosemary not said here			tree rules
3	see	past	rosemary	a handsome young man	before girl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	ask speech: ask	past	a handsome young man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come	past · perfect	rosemary			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	steal	to-infinitive	rosemary not said here	man's firewood		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location firewood=Theme
7	say		rosemary			nom saying «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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