The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 35
He was so busy over the mosquitos that he did not hear Ciccu steal softly out, or see him catch up the sword.
Who acts: Scarcely, Ciccu · What happens: be, not hear, steal, see, catch up · To what, where: Scarcely, sword · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, Ciccu), 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 busy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 busy | advmod |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 mosquitos | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mosquitos | det |
| 7 | mosquitos | mosquito | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 busy | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 hear | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hear | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hear | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 hear | advmod |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 busy | advcl |
| 13 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 steal | nsubj |
| 14 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hear | ccomp |
| 15 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 16 out | advmod |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 steal | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 see | xcomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 catch | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sword | det |
| 24 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 catch | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Scarcely | over the mosquitos; busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not hear | past · do-support | Scarcely | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | steal | present | Ciccu | out property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | Scarcely | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | catch up | infinitive | Scarcely not said here | the sword | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
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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