The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 162

It was true, they said, that about mid-day they had heard a great noise, but as that was a matter of daily occurrence they did not think much of it.

Who acts: body, screams, that · What happens: be, say, hear, not think · To what, where: that, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body, screams, that), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 true	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 heard	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 mid-day	case
10	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 noise	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 noise	amod
16	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 think	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 think	cc
19	as	as	ADP	_	23 matter	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 matter	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 matter	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 matter	det
23	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 think	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 occurrence	case
25	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 occurrence	amod
26	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 matter	nmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 think	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 think	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 think	advmod
30	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 true	parataxis
31	much	much	PRON	PronType=Ind	30 think	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 much	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	body		true property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	screams = scream			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past · perfect	screams = scream	that	about mid-day	tree rules
4	is	past	that		as a matter; of daily occurrence	tree rules
5	not think speech: other	past · do-support	screams = scream	much		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme

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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