The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 40

The young fellows saw all this going on, but did not hear the two of them say anything to each other.

Who acts: young fellows, this, two · What happens: see, go on, not hear, say · To what, where: this, anything, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young fellows, this, two), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fellows	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fellows	amod
3	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 this	det:predet
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 saw	obj
7	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 saw	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 going	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 hear	cc
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hear	advmod
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 two	det
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 say	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 two	nmod
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	ccomp
19	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 say	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 each	case
21	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	18 say	obl
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 each	fixed
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	past	the young fellows	this		tree rules
2	go on	gerund	this not said here			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not hear	past · do-support	the young fellows not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	present	the two of fellows	anything	each	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Topic to each=Recipient

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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