The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 24

For two days the girl kept shelling; and though she could not see the old fairy at all, she could always hear at her side the click of the ears together.

Who acts: girl · What happens: keep, shell, not see, hear, click · To what, where: old fairy, all, side, ears

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, A Pueblo Bluebeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	shelling	shell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 hear	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hear	cc
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 see	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 see	advmod
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 hear	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fairy	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fairy	amod
17	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 fairy	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hear	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	aux
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 hear	advmod
24	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 kept	advcl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 side	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 side	nmod:poss
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hear	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 click	det
29	click	click	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 side	appos
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 ears	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ears	det
32	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 click	nmod
33	together	together	ADV	_	32 ears	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the girl			day		tree rules
2	shell	gerund	the girl not said here					vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not see	could	girl	the old fairy	all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus
4	hear	could	girl		fairy's side		always property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	click			the ears				nom click «event 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: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 24