English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 68
Just at that moment they heard the noise of some one approaching, and a loud voice was heard saying:
Who acts: pity, one, loud voice · What happens: hear, approach, say, noise · To what, where: noise, loud voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pity, one, loud voice), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 heard | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 noise | det |
| 8 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 noise | nmod |
| 12 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 one | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 heard | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 16 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | amod |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | aux:pass |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 heard | conj |
| 20 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 heard | xcomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | pity | the noise of some one | moment | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | approach | gerund | some one not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | a loud voice | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | a loud voice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | noise | some one | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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