The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 100
He heard the priest go through the service in front of the altar, and there was singing more beautiful than he had ever heard before.
Who acts: smith, priest · What happens: hear, go, sing · To what, where: service · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, priest), 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 priest | det |
| 4 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | ccomp |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 service | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 service | det |
| 8 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 front | case |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 altar | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 altar | det |
| 13 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 front | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 singing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 singing | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 singing | expl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 singing | aux |
| 18 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 heard | advcl |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 singing | xcomp |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 25 heard | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 heard | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 heard | aux |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 heard | advmod |
| 25 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 beautiful | advcl |
| 26 | before | before | ADV | _ | 25 heard | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | smith | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go | present | the priest | the service | in front of the altar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through service=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | smith not said here | there | beautiful property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | hear | past · perfect | smith | ever | before property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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