The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 129
As on former occasions, the quick-eared comrade had overheard the King’s command and repeated it to the Simpleton.
Who acts: King · What happens: overhear, repeat, command · To what, where: eared comrade, command, Simpleton · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 occasions | case |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 occasions | case |
| 3 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 occasions | amod |
| 4 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 overheard | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 occasions | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 comrade | det |
| 7 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eared | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 quick | punct |
| 9 | eared | eared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 comrade | amod |
| 10 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overheard | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 overheard | aux |
| 12 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 command | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 16 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overheard | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 repeated | cc |
| 18 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 overheard | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 repeated | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Simpleton | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Simpleton | det |
| 22 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 repeated | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 overheard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overhear | past · perfect · passive | the eared comrade | as former occasions | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | repeat | past | command | the Simpleton | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to simpleton=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | command | the King | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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