English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 3

Now Dick had heard a great many very strange things about the great city called London; for the country people at that time thought that folks in London were all fine gentlemen and ladies; and that there was singing and music there all day long; and that the streets were all paved with gold.

Who acts: Dick, folks · What happens: hear, call, think, be, sing, pave · To what, where: great many strange things, great city, fine gentlemen, streets · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, folks), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 heard	advmod
2	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 things	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 strange	advmod
9	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	obj
11	about	about	ADP	_	14 city	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 city	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 city	amod
14	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 things	nmod
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 city	acl
16	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 thought	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 people	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
20	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 people	compound
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 thought	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thought	obl
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 gentlemen	mark
27	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 gentlemen	nsubj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 London	case
29	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 folks	nmod
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gentlemen	cop
31	all	all	ADV	_	33 gentlemen	advmod
32	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 gentlemen	amod
33	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 thought	ccomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ladies	cc
35	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 gentlemen	conj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 singing	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 singing	cc
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 was	mark
39	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	40 was	expl
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 singing	aux
41	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 heard	advcl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 music	cc
43	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 singing	conj
44	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 singing	advmod
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 day	det
46	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 singing	obl:unmarked
47	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 day	advmod
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 paved	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 paved	cc
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 paved	mark
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 streets	det
52	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 paved	nsubj:pass
53	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 paved	aux:pass
54	all	all	ADV	_	55 paved	advmod
55	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heard	conj
56	with	with	ADP	_	57 gold	case
57	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 paved	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	Dick	a great many strange things		now	about the great city	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	call	participle		the great city not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	Dick not said here			time	for the country people	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	folks in London	fine gentlemen and ladies			all property	tree rules
5	sing speech: express	past · progressive	Dick not said here		there	day		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	pave	past · passive		the streets			with gold; all property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=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: «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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