The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 57

About noon they came to a large stone, and here the old fellow stopped, looked carefully round, gave a sharp whistle, and stamped three times on the ground with his left foot.

Who acts: noon, old fellow · What happens: come, stop, look, give, stamp · To what, where: large stone, sharp whistle, ground

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (noon, old fellow), 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	About	about	ADV	_	2 noon	advmod
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 stone	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stone	det
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stone	amod
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stopped	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stopped	cc
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 stopped	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fellow	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fellow	amod
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stopped	nsubj
15	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stopped	conj
18	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	19 round	advmod
19	round	round	ADV	_	17 looked	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gave	punct
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looked	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 whistle	det
23	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 whistle	amod
24	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stamped	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stamped	cc
27	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 times	nummod
29	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stamped	obl:unmarked
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 ground	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ground	det
32	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stamped	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 foot	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 foot	nmod:poss
35	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 foot	amod
36	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stamped	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	noon		a large stone			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stone=Initial_Location
2	stop	past	the old fellow		here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	look	past	the old fellow not said here				round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	give	past	the old fellow not said here	a sharp whistle				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme
5	stamp	past	noon not said here		the ground	time	with fellow's left foot	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination

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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