The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 28
He rode further, and after a while he thought he heard a voice in the sand under his feet.
Who acts: haste · What happens: ride, think, hear · To what, where: while, voice, sand
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (haste), 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 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | further | further | ADV | _ | 2 rode | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 while | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 while | det |
| 8 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 while | acl:relcl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sand | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sand | det |
| 17 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 feet | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 feet | nmod:poss |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heard | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | haste | further property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | haste | a while not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot while=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | haste | a voice | the sand | while | under haste's feet | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=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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