The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 50

Once more the beautiful Hyacinthia murmured, ‘I hear horses’ hoofs quite near.’

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

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 (beautiful Hyacinthia, 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 murmured	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 murmured	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hyacinthia	det
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Hyacinthia	amod
5	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 murmured	nsubj
6	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nsubj
10	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 murmured	conj
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hoofs	nmod:poss
12	’	's	PART	_	11 horses	case
13	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hear	obj
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 near	advmod
15	near	near	ADV	_	10 hear	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 murmured	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 murmured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	murmur speech: other	past	the beautiful Hyacinthia					once property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	present	I	horses's hoofs				near property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hoof=Stimulus

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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