The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 9
Noticing two young people talking together, he drew near thinking that he might get some explanation of what puzzled him.
Who acts: Prince, two young people · What happens: notice, talk, draw, think, get, puzzle · To what, where: two young people, explanation, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Prince, two young people), 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 | Noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 drew | advcl |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 people | nummod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Noticing | obj |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 people | acl |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 talking | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noticing | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drew | nsubj |
| 9 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 thinking | mark |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 drew | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thinking | ccomp |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 explanation | det |
| 17 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 what | case |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 explanation | nmod |
| 20 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 puzzled | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | gerund | Prince not said here | two young people | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | two young people not said here | together property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | Prince | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | Prince not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get | might | Prince | some explanation | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer explanation=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | puzzle | past | Prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=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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