The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 141
As soon as the Irishman and the old man heard her demand they went out hunting, and before evening they had killed three-score cattle.
Who acts: Irishman, demand, noise · What happens: hear, go out, kill, demand · To what, where: hunting, men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman, demand, noise), 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 | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 heard | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 heard | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Irishman | det |
| 5 | Irishman | Irishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 man | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Irishman | conj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 demand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 went | compound:prt |
| 16 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 killed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 killed | cc |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 evening | case |
| 20 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 killed | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 killed | aux |
| 23 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 heard | conj |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 score | nummod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 three | punct |
| 26 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cattle | compound |
| 27 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 killed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Irishman and the old man | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | noise's demand | hunting | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect · passive | men = man | evening | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer cattle=Result | ||||
| 4 | demand | noise | nom demand «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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