The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 4

He was turning aside to avoid it, when he heard the sound of someone crying in the ditch.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: turn, avoid, hear, cry · To what, where: meadow, sound, ditch

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	3 turning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turning	aux
3	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	aside	aside	ADV	_	3 turning	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 avoid	mark
6	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turning	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 avoid	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 heard	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turning	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sound	det
13	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 someone	case
15	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 sound	nmod
16	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 someone	acl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 ditch	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ditch	det
19	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crying	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past · progressive	Prince			aside property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	avoid	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	meadow			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location
3	hear	past	Prince	the sound of someone			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
4	cry speech: express	gerund			the ditch		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ditch=Location

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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