The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 74

Now we must hear something about the stepson.

Who acts: we · What happens: hear · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hear	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 hear	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 stepson	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stepson	det
8	stepson	stepson	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 something	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	must	we	something			now	about the stepson	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=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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