The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 36
But the boy was so absorbed in his flute that he noticed nothing till half the flock were on the other side.
Who acts: boy, nothing · What happens: absorb, notice, be · To what, where: boy, flute, other side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, nothing), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 absorbed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 absorbed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 absorbed | aux:pass |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 absorbed | advmod |
| 6 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 flute | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 flute | nmod:poss |
| 9 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 absorbed | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 noticed | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 noticed | nsubj |
| 12 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 absorbed | advcl |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 side | nsubj |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 17 flock | case |
| 15 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 17 flock | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flock | det |
| 17 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nothing | nmod |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 side | cop |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 side | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 side | amod |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 absorbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | absorb | past · passive | the boy | boy's flute | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | boy | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | nothing | the other side | tree rules |
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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