The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 45
But Ferko pretended not to hear, and drove some more thousands before him, so that everyone quaked with horror and fear.
Who acts: Ferko, everyone · What happens: pretend, not hear, drive, quake · To what, where: more thousands
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko, everyone), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 pretended | cc |
| 2 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pretended | nsubj |
| 3 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hear | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pretended | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drove | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drove | cc |
| 9 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pretended | conj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 thousands | det |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 thousands | amod |
| 12 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drove | obj |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drove | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 quaked | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 quaked | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 quaked | nsubj |
| 19 | quaked | quake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pretended | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 horror | case |
| 21 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 quaked | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fear | cc |
| 23 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 horror | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | Ferko | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not hear | to-infinitive | Ferko not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | drive | past | Ferko not said here | some more thousands | before Ferko | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme before he=Destination | |||
| 4 | quake | past | everyone | with horror and fear | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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