The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 111
When these words were overheard by the sharp-eared comrade and repeated to the Simpleton, he was in despair.
Who acts: eared comrade, Simpleton · What happens: overhear, repeat, be · To what, where: words, despair
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eared comrade, Simpleton), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 overheard | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 overheard | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overheard | aux:pass |
| 5 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 despair | advcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 comrade | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 comrade | det |
| 8 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eared | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sharp | punct |
| 10 | eared | eared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 comrade | amod |
| 11 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overheard | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 repeated | cc |
| 13 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 overheard | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Simpleton | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Simpleton | det |
| 16 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 repeated | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 overheard | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 despair | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 despair | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 despair | case |
| 21 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overhear | past · passive | the eared comrade | this words | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | the eared comrade not said here | to the Simpleton | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Simpleton | despair | tree rules |
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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