The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 18

It rang with a hollow sound, and he called to his companions, and said, ‘Come here and listen; the ground seems hollow!’

Who acts: stone, Hassebu, ground · What happens: ring, call, say, come, listen, seem · To what, where: companions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone, Hassebu, ground), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rang	nsubj
2	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 sound	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sound	det
5	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sound	amod
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rang	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 called	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 called	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 called	nsubj
10	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rang	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 companions	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 companions	nmod:poss
13	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 called	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rang	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Come	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Come	punct
19	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 Come	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 listen	cc
22	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Come	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 seems	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seems	nsubj
26	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rang	parataxis
27	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 seems	xcomp
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 hollow	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ring	past	stone			with a hollow sound	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sound=Theme
2	call	past	Hassebu	Hassebu's companions			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to companion=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	infinitive			here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	listen	infinitive					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	seem	present	the ground			hollow property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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