The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 125
He had scarcely done this when he heard the noise of the nyamatsanes coming back to their grandmother, for they were very fond of her, and never stayed away from her longer than they could help.
Who acts: husband, nyamatsanes, skins · What happens: do, hear, come back, be, not stay away, help · To what, where: this, noise
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, nyamatsanes, skins), 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 | 4 done | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 heard | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 noise | det |
| 10 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 nyamatsanes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nyamatsanes | det |
| 13 | nyamatsanes | nyamatsane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 noise | nmod |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 nyamatsanes | acl |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 coming | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 grandmother | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coming | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fond | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 fond | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fond | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fond | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 fond | advmod |
| 24 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heard | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fond | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stayed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stayed | cc |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 stayed | advmod |
| 30 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | conj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 stayed | advmod |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 stayed | obl |
| 34 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 stayed | advmod |
| 35 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 38 help | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 help | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 help | aux |
| 38 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 longer | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | husband | this | scarcely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | hear | past | husband | the noise of the nyamatsanes | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come back | gerund | the nyamatsanes not said here | to skins's grandmother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grandmother=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | skins = skin | of friend; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not stay away | past | husband not said here | from friend; away, long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | help | could | skins = skin | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | noise | the nyamatsanes | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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