The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 124
Hearing that did not exactly cheer him, and he had left his tinder-box in the inn.
Who acts: Hearing, soldier · What happens: not cheer, leave · To what, where: that, tinder box, inn
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hearing, soldier), 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 | Hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cheer | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 cheer | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cheer | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 cheer | advmod |
| 5 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 cheer | advmod |
| 6 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cheer | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 left | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 left | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 cheer | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 box | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 box | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 tinder | punct |
| 16 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 inn | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 inn | det |
| 19 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cheer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cheer | past · do-support | Hearing | that | exactly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer he=Result | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | soldier | soldier's tinder box | the inn | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent box=Theme in inn=Location |
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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