The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 15

And though they spoke low the young men heard, and turned their horses’ heads.

Who acts: men, young men · What happens: speak, hear, turn · To what, where: heads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, young men), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 heard	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 spoke	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	advcl
5	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 spoke	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turned	cc
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 horses	nmod:poss
14	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heads	nmod:poss
15	’	's	PART	_	14 horses	case
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turned	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	men = man		low property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	the young men			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	turn	past	the young men not said here	men's horses's heads		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=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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