More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 3

Sleepy as it is now, it was once noisy enough, and what made the noise was--rats.

Who acts: t · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (t), 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	Sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 noisy	advcl
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 now	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 now	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 now	cop
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Sleepy	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 noisy	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 noisy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 noisy	cop
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 noisy	advmod
10	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 noisy	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 noisy	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 noise	det
17	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 made	cop
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 rats	punct
20	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 noisy	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 noisy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	t	now property	tree rules
2	is	past	t	enough, noisy, once property	tree rules
3	is	past		make property	tree rules

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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