The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 34
‘I am listening to what is going on in the world,’ replied the man.
Who acts: I · What happens: listen, go on, reply · To what, where: world, man · 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 (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 listening | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 listening | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 listening | aux |
| 4 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 listening | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 going | compound:prt |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 listening | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 listening | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | present · progressive | I | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go on | present · progressive | the world | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the man | 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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