The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 186
The sound of her distress made him forget he was hungry, and he strode into the hut to find out for himself what was wrong.
Who acts: sound, sun, woman · What happens: make, forget, be, stride, find out, distress · To what, where: sun, hut · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, sun, woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 distress | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 distress | nmod:poss |
| 5 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sound | nmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | xcomp |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hungry | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hungry | cop |
| 11 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forget | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 strode | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 strode | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 strode | nsubj |
| 15 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 hut | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hut | det |
| 18 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 strode | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 strode | advcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 find | compound:prt |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 himself | case |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 find | obl |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 wrong | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 wrong | cop |
| 26 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 find | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the sound of woman's distress | sun | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | infinitive | sun not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | sun | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stride | past | sun | the hut | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hut=Destination | ||||
| 5 | find out | to-infinitive | sun not said here | for sun | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | past | wrong property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | distress | woman | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/186/