The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 126
He heard the drums and saw the soldiers marching; all the people were running to and fro.
Who acts: soldier, soldiers, people · What happens: hear, see, march, run, fro · To what, where: drums, soldiers
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 (soldier, soldiers, people), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 drums | det |
| 4 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldiers | det |
| 8 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | marching | march | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 soldiers | acl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 running | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 people | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 running | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 running | aux |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 heard | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 running | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fro | cc |
| 18 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 running | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | soldier | the drums | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer drum=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | soldier not said here | the soldiers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soldier=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | march | gerund | the soldiers not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run | past · progressive | all people | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fro | infinitive | all people not said here | 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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