More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 113
The Worm was coming closer and closer to the Hall; women were shrieking, men were gathering weapons, dogs were barking and horses neighing with terror.
Who acts: Worm, women, men, dogs, horses · What happens: come, shriek, gather, bark, neigh · To what, where: weapons
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Worm, women, men, dogs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Worm | det |
| 2 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coming | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 coming | aux |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 coming | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 closer | cc |
| 7 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 closer | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Hall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hall | det |
| 10 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 closer | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 shrieking | punct |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shrieking | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shrieking | aux |
| 14 | shrieking | shriek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 coming | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gathering | punct |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gathering | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gathering | aux |
| 18 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 shrieking | conj |
| 19 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gathering | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 barking | punct |
| 21 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 barking | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 barking | aux |
| 23 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 shrieking | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 horses | cc |
| 25 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 barking | conj |
| 26 | neighing | neigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 horses | acl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 terror | case |
| 28 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 neighing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | the Worm | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shriek | past · progressive | women | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 3 | gather | past · progressive | men | weapons | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bark | past · progressive | dogs | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | neigh | gerund | horses not said here | with terror | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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