The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 102

He heard the children shouting and calling, and from a window that he passed came the twang of the koto, and everything seemed to cry a welcome for his return.

Who acts: thatch, children, everything · What happens: hear, shout, call, pass, come, seem · To what, where: children, window, twang, welcome, koto · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thatch, children, everything), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heard	obj
5	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 children	acl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 calling	cc
7	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 shouting	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 window	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 window	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 passed	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 passed	nsubj
15	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 window	acl
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 twang	det
18	twang	twang	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 koto	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 koto	det
21	koto	koto	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 twang	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seemed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 seemed	cc
24	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 seemed	nsubj
25	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 cry	mark
27	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 seemed	xcomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 welcome	det
29	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cry	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 return	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 return	nmod:poss
32	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 welcome	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	thatch	the children			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
2	shout speech: express	gerund	the children not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	gerund	the children not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pass	past	thatch	a window not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Trajectory
5	come	past	thatch not said here	the twang of the koto	a window		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location twang=Theme
6	seem	past	everything				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	everything not said here	a welcome		for thatch's return	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent welcome=Topic
8	twang			the koto			nom twang «event transitive»: of=patient
9	return		thatch				nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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