The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 43

Nine o’clock came, and no Hans, but when eleven struck the minister began to fear that he had vanished like the ringers who had gone before him.

Who acts: Nine o’clock, eleven, minister, ringers · What happens: come, strike, begin, fear, vanish, go · To what, where: Hans

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 (Nine o’clock, eleven, minister, ringers), 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	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o’clock	nummod
2	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Hans	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Hans	cc
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 Hans	det
7	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 struck	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 struck	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 eleven	advmod
11	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 struck	nsubj
12	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 minister	det
14	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 struck	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fear	mark
17	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 vanished	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 vanished	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 vanished	aux
21	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 fear	advcl
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 ringers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ringers	det
24	ringers	ringer	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 vanished	obl
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 gone	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 gone	aux
27	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 ringers	acl:relcl
28	before	before	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gone	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Nine o’clock	no Hans			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	strike	past	eleven				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	the minister				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	fear	to-infinitive	the minister not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	vanish	past · perfect	minister			like the ringers	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go	past · perfect	the ringers		before minister		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location

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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