The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 37
He was still gazing, when he heard a sound in the distance as if some one was calling hit by his name.
Who acts: Birscha, one · What happens: gaze, hear, call, hit, name · To what, where: sound · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Birscha, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gazing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gazing | aux |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 gazing | advmod |
| 4 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 heard | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gazing | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sound | det |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 distance | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 distance | det |
| 13 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 calling | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 calling | mark |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 calling | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 calling | aux |
| 19 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 heard | advcl |
| 20 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 calling | xcomp |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 name | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 name | nmod:poss |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hit | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gazing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past · progressive | Birscha | still | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Birscha | a sound | in the distance | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | call | past · progressive | some one | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hit | participle | some one not said here | by Birscha's name | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | name | Birscha | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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