The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 20

The stranger talked for a little to the other men in a language Hans did not understand, and after listening for a short time he once more fell asleep.

Who acts: stranger, Hans · What happens: talk, not understand, listen, fall · To what, where: language, short time

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, Hans), 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 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 little	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talked	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 men	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 men	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 men	amod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talked	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 language	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 language	det
13	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	obl
14	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 understand	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 understand	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 understand	advmod
17	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 language	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 listening	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 listening	cc
20	after	after	SCONJ	_	21 listening	mark
21	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 talked	parataxis
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 time	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 time	det
24	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 time	amod
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 listening	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fell	nsubj
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 fell	advmod
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 fell	advmod
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 time	acl:relcl
30	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fell	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the stranger		a language		for a little; to the other men	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent
2	not understand	past · do-support	Hans	a language not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
3	listen	gerund				time		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past	Hans	a short time not said here			asleep, once property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient time=Result

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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