The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 39

He entered, passed through the courtyard, and then stopped to listen for the singing of the birds; at last he heard it.

Who acts: Joringel · What happens: enter, pass, stop, listen, hear, sing · To what, where: courtyard, flower, last, birds

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joringel), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 entered	nsubj
2	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct
4	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 entered	advcl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 courtyard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 courtyard	det
7	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stopped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stopped	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stopped	advmod
11	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entered	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 listen	mark
13	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stopped	xcomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 singing	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 singing	det
16	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 listen	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 birds	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 birds	det
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 singing	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heard	nsubj
24	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entered	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heard	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	Joringel					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	participle	Joringel not said here		the courtyard			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through courtyard=Location
3	stop	past	Joringel not said here			then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	listen	to-infinitive	Joringel not said here				for the singing of the birds	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for singing=Theme
5	hear	past	Joringel	flower	last			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	sing			the birds				nom singing «act transitive»: of=patient

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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