The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 99

On reaching it he found it came from a little house, and as soon as the man inside heard the noise of the horse’s feet he came out to see who was there.

Who acts: loss, way, noise, feet · What happens: reach, find, come, hear, come out, see · To what, where: way, little house · 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 (loss, way, noise, feet), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 reaching	mark
2	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 found	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reaching	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 house	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 soon	advmod
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 heard	advmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 man	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	obl
19	inside	inside	ADV	_	20 heard	advmod
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 noise	det
22	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 feet	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 horse	det
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feet	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 horse	case
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 noise	nmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	ccomp
30	out	out	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 came	advcl
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 there	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 there	cop
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 see	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	gerund	loss not said here	way			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	find	past	loss				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come	past	way		a little house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location
4	hear	past	loss not said here			as the man; inside, soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come out	past	the noise of the horse's feet			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	see	to-infinitive	the noise of the horse's feet not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past				there property	tree rules
8	noise		the horse's feet				nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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