The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 183

Here a shriek of dismay was heard both from the dragon and his mother, who declared they would give him seven or even seven times seven the number of sacks if he would only go away.

Who acts: mother, Woe, Stan · What happens: hear, declare, give, go away, shriek · To what, where: shriek, Stan, dismay · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Woe, Stan), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 heard	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shriek	det
3	shriek	shriek	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 dismay	case
5	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shriek	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	aux:pass
7	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	both	both	CCONJ	_	11 dragon	cc:preconj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 dragon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dragon	det
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mother	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dragon	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 declared	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 declared	nsubj
17	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mother	acl:relcl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 give	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 give	aux
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 declared	ccomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 times	nummod
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 times	cc
24	even	even	ADV	_	26 times	advmod
25	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 times	nummod
26	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 give	obl:unmarked
27	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 times	flat
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 number	det
29	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 times	appos
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 sacks	case
31	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 number	nmod
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 go	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 go	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 go	aux
35	only	only	ADV	_	36 go	advmod
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 give	advcl
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 go	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · passive		a shriek of dismay		here			tree rules
2	declare speech: other	past	Stan's mother						vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	give	would	Woe		Stan		time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	go away a condition, not said to happen	would	Stan					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shriek			dismay					nom shriek «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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