The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 57

Now one night, when he was sitting on the grass beside his flocks, he heard not very far from him the sound as of some one crying.

Who acts: BOY · What happens: sit, hear, cry · To what, where: grass, sound

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 (BOY), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:1010): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 heard	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 night	nummod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sitting	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sitting	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	aux
8	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 heard	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 grass	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grass	det
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 flocks	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 flocks	nmod:poss
14	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sitting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 far	advmod
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 far	advmod
20	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 heard	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 far	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sound	det
24	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obj
25	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	28 one	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 as	fixed
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 one	det
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 sound	nmod
29	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 one	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	BOY		the grass		beside BOY's flocks	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
2	hear	past	BOY	the sound		now; night	as some one; far property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
3	cry speech: express	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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