More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 61

Thereupon she set up such a squeal, that the boy dropped the stick, and clapped his hands to his ears but it grew to so shrill a screech, that it was like all the wind in the world whistling through one tiny keyhole.

Who acts: inch, boy, stick, wind · What happens: set up, drop, clap, grow, shrill, be · To what, where: squeal, stick, hands, ears, screech, world

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inch, boy, stick, wind), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 squeal	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 squeal	det
7	squeal	squeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dropped	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 dropped	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropped	nsubj
12	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stick	det
14	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropped	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 clapped	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 clapped	cc
17	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hands	nmod:poss
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 clapped	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 ears	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 ears	nmod:poss
22	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 clapped	obl
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 grew	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 grew	nsubj
25	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 shrill	case
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 shrill	advmod
28	shrill	shrill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 grew	xcomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 screech	det
30	screech	screech	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shrill	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wind	punct
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 wind	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 wind	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 wind	cop
35	like	like	ADP	_	38 wind	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 wind	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wind	det
38	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grew	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 world	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 world	det
41	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wind	nmod
42	whistling	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 wind	acl
43	through	through	ADP	_	46 keyhole	case
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 keyhole	nummod
45	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 keyhole	amod
46	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 whistling	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	set up	past	inch	such squeal			thereupon property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient squeal=Result
2	drop	past	the boy	the stick				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
3	clap	past	inch not said here	boy's hands	boy's ears			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to ear=Recipient
4	grow	past	stick					tree rules
5	shrill	infinitive	stick not said here	a screech				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location screech=Theme
6	is	past	stick			the world	like all wind	tree rules
7	whistle	gerund	all wind not said here			one tiny keyhole		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through keyhole=Location

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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