The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 75

Then he heard the sound of cheerful voices, and the song of the blacksmiths as they blew their bellows--he even felt as if he saw the sparks flashing before his eyes.

Who acts: friend, blacksmiths, sparks · What happens: hear, blow, feel, see, flash, sing · To what, where: sound, bellows, sparks, eyes

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 (friend, blacksmiths, sparks), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 heard	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sound	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 voices	case
7	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 voices	amod
8	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sound	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 song	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 song	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 song	det
12	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 blacksmiths	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 blacksmiths	det
15	blacksmiths	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 song	nmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 blew	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 blew	nsubj
18	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	advcl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bellows	nmod:poss
20	bellows	bellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 blew	obj
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 felt	nsubj
23	even	even	ADV	_	24 felt	advmod
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 saw	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 saw	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 felt	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sparks	det
30	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 saw	obj
31	flashing	flash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 sparks	acl
32	before	before	ADP	_	34 eyes	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 eyes	nmod:poss
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 flashing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear	past	friend	the sound of cheerful voices		then	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
2	blow	past	blacksmiths = blacksmith	blacksmiths's bellows			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient
3	feel	past	friend				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	past	friend	the sparks			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spark=Stimulus
5	flash	gerund	the sparks not said here		friend's eyes		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location
6	sing		the blacksmiths				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent
7	bellow		blacksmiths = blacksmith				nom bellow «communication intransitive»: 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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