The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 3

As he went, it struck him that two of the geese were gobbling and screaming as geese do, but the third sat quite still, only heaving a deep sigh now and then, like a human being.

Who acts: he, cage, two geese, geese, third · What happens: go, strike, gobble, scream, do, sit · To what, where: him, deep sigh

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, cage, two geese, geese), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 struck	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 struck	nsubj
6	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 struck	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 gobbling	mark
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 geese	nummod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 geese	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 geese	det
12	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gobbling	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gobbling	aux
14	gobbling	gobble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 struck	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 screaming	cc
16	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 gobbling	conj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 do	mark
18	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 do	nsubj
19	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 screaming	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 sat	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 third	det
23	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 struck	parataxis
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 still	advmod
26	still	still	ADV	_	24 sat	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 heaving	punct
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 heaving	advmod
29	heaving	heave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sat	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 sigh	det
31	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sigh	amod
32	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heaving	obj
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 heaving	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 then	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 now	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 human	punct
37	like	like	SCONJ	_	39 human	mark
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 human	det
39	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sat	conj
40	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 human	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go	past	he			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	strike	past	cage	him = he		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
3	gobble	past · progressive	the two geese			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	scream speech: express	gerund	the two geese not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	present	geese			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sit	past	the third		still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	heave	gerund	the third not said here	a deep sigh	now	vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=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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