The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 48
He had chosen his time well, and in about half an hour the sound of a horse’s hoofs was heard.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: choose, hear · To what, where: sound
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chosen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chosen | aux |
| 3 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 time | nmod:poss |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chosen | obj |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 chosen | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 heard | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hour | case |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 half | advmod |
| 11 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 13 hour | det:predet |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sound | det |
| 15 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hoofs | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 horse | det |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hoofs | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 horse | case |
| 20 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sound | nmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | aux:pass |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 chosen | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · perfect | emperor | time | well property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | the sound of a horse's hoofs | hour | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: 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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