The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 189

The way, though really not far, was yet too long for Stan, but at length he heard his children’s voices, and stopped short.

Who acts: Stan · What happens: be, hear, stop · To what, where: voices, length

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 long	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 long	mark
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 long	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 far	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 long	cop
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 way	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 Stan	case
14	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 long	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 length	case
18	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 long	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 children	nmod:poss
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 voices	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 children	case
24	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 heard	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stopped	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stopped	cc
27	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	conj
28	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stopped	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				yet	for Stan; far, long property	tree rules
2	hear	past	Stan	Stan's children's voices	length			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
3	stop	past	Stan not said here				short property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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