The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 54
When he had got some way he heard a rustling through the bushes and presently a sound of voices.
Who acts: brother · What happens: get, hear · To what, where: way, rustling, bushes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rustling | det |
| 10 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 bushes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bushes | det |
| 13 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 heard | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sound | cc |
| 15 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 17 sound | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sound | det |
| 17 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bushes | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 voices | case |
| 19 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sound | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | brother | some way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | brother | a rustling | the bushes and a sound of voices | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustling=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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