The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 123
As he finished, the cocks in the village crowed, and the little man was nowhere to be seen.
Who acts: rest, cocks · What happens: finish, crow, see · To what, where: little man
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, cocks), 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 finished | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crowed | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 finished | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cocks | det |
| 6 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 crowed | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 village | det |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cocks | nmod |
| 10 | crowed | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seen | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seen | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 17 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 seen | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 crowed | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 crowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past | rest | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | crow | past | the cocks in the village | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | the little man | nowhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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