The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 32
‘I hear horses’ hoofs behind us,’ said Hyacinthia to the Prince.
Who acts: I, Hyacinthia · What happens: hear, say · To what, where: hoofs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Hyacinthia), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hoofs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 4 horses | case |
| 6 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hear | obj |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Prince | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | I | horses's hoofs | behind us | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hoof=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hyacinthia | to the Prince | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to prince=Experiencer clause=Topic |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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