The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 39
The monks were just spreading out their nets to dry on the shore, when they heard the sound of crying.
Who acts: monks, sound · What happens: spread out, dry, hear, cry · To what, where: nets, shore, sound
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 (monks, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monks | det |
| 2 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spreading | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spreading | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 spreading | advmod |
| 5 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 spreading | compound:prt |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 nets | nmod:poss |
| 8 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spreading | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 dry | mark |
| 10 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spreading | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 shore | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shore | det |
| 13 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dry | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 heard | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spreading | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sound | det |
| 19 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | obj |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 crying | mark |
| 21 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 sound | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spreading | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread out | past · progressive | the monks | monks's nets | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location net=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dry | to-infinitive | the monks not said here | the shore | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | monks = monk | the sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | the sound not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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.
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