The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 42

‘I hear horses’ hoofs,’ sighed Hyacinthia.

Who acts: I · What happens: hear, sigh · To what, where: hoofs, Hyacinthia

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), 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	9 sighed	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
9	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sighed	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	I	horses's hoofs					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hoof=Stimulus
2	sigh	past		Hyacinthia					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 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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