The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 14
Suddenly she heard something whining and weeping in the corner, and, stopping her work, she looked round to see what it was.
Who acts: woman, work · What happens: hear, stop, look, see, be, work · To what, where: something whining, corner, work
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, work), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 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 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 whining | compound |
| 5 | whining | whining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 weeping | cc |
| 7 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whining | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 corner | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 corner | det |
| 10 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stopping | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stopping | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stopping | punct |
| 14 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 work | nmod:poss |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stopping | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 20 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 looked | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 round | xcomp |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 what | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 what | cop |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | woman | something whining and weeping | the corner | suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whining=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | stop | gerund | woman not said here | woman's work | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality work=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | look | past | woman | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | work | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | work | woman | nom work «act 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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