The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 24
Hans listened for a moment, then resolved to go towards the place where the sound came from, hoping he might come across some human being.
Who acts: Hans, sound · What happens: listen, resolve, go, come, hope · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hans, sound), 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 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 resolved | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 resolved | advmod |
| 8 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 listened | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 resolved | xcomp |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 came | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sound | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hoping | punct |
| 20 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 listened | advcl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hoping | ccomp |
| 24 | across | across | ADP | _ | 26 human | mark |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 human | det |
| 26 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 come | xcomp |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 human | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | Hans | moment | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | resolve | participle | Hans not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Hans not said here | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the sound | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hope | gerund | Hans not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come | might | sound | human property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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