The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 33
As he drew near his house a sound of voices struck upon his ear, and he looked up to see the whole place full of children.
Who acts: man · What happens: draw, strike, look up, see · To what, where: sound, house, voices, ear, whole place
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 (man), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sound | det |
| 8 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 voices | case |
| 10 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sound | nmod |
| 11 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 voices | acl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 ear | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ear | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 struck | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 looked | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 looked | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 place | amod |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obj |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 place | amod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 children | case |
| 27 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 full | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | man | a sound of voices | man's house | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | |||
| 2 | strike | participle | voices not said here | man's ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ear=Location | ||||
| 3 | look up | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | man not said here | the whole place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |
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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