English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 99

And I heard a kind of a sort of a humming.

Who acts: I · What happens: hear, sort · To what, where: kind, humming

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 heard	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kind	det
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sort	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sort	det
8	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 humming	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 humming	det
11	humming	humming	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sort	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	a kind of a sort of a humming					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus
2	sort			a humming					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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