The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 88

The servants outside heard how she cried the whole night, and in the morning they told their master.

Who acts: servants, servant, mountain · What happens: hear, cry, tell · To what, where: master · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, servant, mountain), 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	2 servants	det
2	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	nsubj
3	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 heard	advmod
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 cried	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 night	amod
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 morning	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 master	nmod:poss
19	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the servants			outside property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	cry speech: express	past	servant		night		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	mountain	mountain's master	morning		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=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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