The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 55
Someone whispered on one side of him: ‘There goes someone,’ and was answered from the other side: ‘Oh, let him pass.
Who acts: Someone, brother · What happens: whisper, go, answer, let, pass · To what, where: one side, someone, other side, brother
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 (Someone, 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 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 whispered | nsubj |
| 2 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 side | nummod |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whispered | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 side | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 goes | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 goes | punct |
| 10 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 goes | expl |
| 11 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 whispered | parataxis |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 goes | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 goes | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 goes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 answered | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 answered | aux:pass |
| 17 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 whispered | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 side | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 side | amod |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 answered | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 let | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 let | punct |
| 24 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 26 let | discourse |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Oh | punct |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 whispered | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 let | obj |
| 28 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 let | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | Someone | one side of brother | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | present | someone | there | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location someone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past · passive | Someone not said here | the other side | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | brother | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pass | infinitive | brother not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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