The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 99
He heard also a multitude of footsteps, as if the church was being filled with people.
Who acts: smith · What happens: hear, fill · To what, where: multitude, church
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), 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 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 heard | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 multitude | det |
| 5 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 footsteps | case |
| 7 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 multitude | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 filled | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 filled | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 filled | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 church | det |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 filled | aux:pass |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 filled | aux:pass |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 heard | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 filled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | smith | a multitude of footsteps | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer multitude=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fill a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the church | with people | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with people=Instrument |
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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