The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 92
So the man with the marvellous quick hearing lay down and, putting his ear to the ground, listened.
Who acts: man · What happens: lie down, put, listen · To what, where: ear, ground
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 (man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 lay | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hearing | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hearing | det |
| 6 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hearing | amod |
| 7 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hearing | amod |
| 8 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 lay | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 putting | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 putting | punct |
| 13 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lay | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ear | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 putting | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 putting | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 listened | punct |
| 20 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 ground | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | the man with the marvellous quick hearing | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | put | gerund | the man with the marvellous quick hearing not said here | man's ear | to the ground | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ear=Goal | |||
| 3 | listen | participle | the ground not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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