The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 39

When the minister heard the sound of the midnight bells he wondered greatly, but rejoiced that he had at last found some one to whom he could trust this duty.

Who acts: minister, sound · What happens: hear, bell, wonder, rejoice, have, find · To what, where: sound, one, last, duty

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 (minister, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 minister	det
3	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rejoiced	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sound	det
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 midnight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 midnight	det
9	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bells	obl
10	bells	bell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sound	acl:relcl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wondered	nsubj
12	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bells	ccomp
13	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	12 wondered	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rejoiced	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 rejoiced	cc
16	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rejoiced	ccomp
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 found	obl
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	ccomp
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 whom	case
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 trust	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 trust	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 trust	aux
29	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 one	acl:relcl
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 duty	det
31	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trust	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 rejoiced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the minister	the sound					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
2	bell	present	the sound not said here				midnight		tree rules
3	wonder speech: ask	past	minister					greatly property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	rejoice	past							tree rules
5	have	past	minister						tree rules
6	find	past	minister not said here	some one		last			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Theme at last=Asset
7	trust	could	minister	this duty	some one				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent duty=Theme to whom=Recipient

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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