The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 29
He paused to listen, and heard the King of the Ants complaining: ‘If only men with their awkward beasts would keep clear of us!
Who acts: haste, Ants, men · What happens: pause, listen, hear, complain, keep · To what, where: King
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, Ants, men), 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 paused | nsubj |
| 2 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 listen | mark |
| 4 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 paused | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 paused | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Ants | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ants | det |
| 12 | Ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heard | obl |
| 13 | complaining | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 Ants | acl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 keep | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 keep | punct |
| 16 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 men | advmod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 keep | nsubj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 beasts | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 21 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beasts | amod |
| 22 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 men | nmod |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 keep | aux |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 paused | advcl |
| 25 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 keep | xcomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 us | case |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 clear | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | haste | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | haste not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | the King | of the Ants | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | complain speech: other | gerund | the Ants not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | keep a condition, not said to happen | would | men with men's awkward beasts | clear property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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