The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 35
He too heard the music, and told one of his men to find out whence it came.
Who acts: King, music · What happens: hear, tell, find out, come · To what, where: music, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, music), 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 | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 heard | advmod |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 music | det |
| 5 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 told | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 men | nmod:poss |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 find | mark |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 find | compound:prt |
| 16 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 came | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | King | the music | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | King not said here | one of King's men | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find out not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | come | past | music | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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