More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 17
The gaping Mountain yawned from side to side, A hideous Cavern, darksome, deep, and wide; In skipt th' exulting Demon, piping loud, With passive joy succeeded by the Crowd.
Who acts: gaping Mountain, th exulting Demon · What happens: gape, yawn, exult, pipe, succeed · To what, where: side, passive joy
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gaping Mountain, th exulting Demon), 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 | 3 Mountain | det |
| 2 | gaping | gape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Mountain | amod |
| 3 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 yawned | nsubj |
| 4 | yawned | yawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yawned | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yawned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cavern | punct |
| 10 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Cavern | det |
| 11 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Cavern | amod |
| 12 | Cavern | Cavern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 darksome | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 darksome | punct |
| 14 | darksome | darksome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 yawned | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 deep | punct |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 darksome | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wide | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wide | cc |
| 19 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 darksome | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 Demon | punct |
| 21 | In | in | ADP | _ | 23 th | case |
| 22 | skipt | skipt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 th | amod |
| 23 | th | th | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Demon | compound |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 th | punct |
| 25 | exulting | exult | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 Demon | amod |
| 26 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yawned | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 piping | punct |
| 28 | piping | pipe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 Demon | acl |
| 29 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 28 piping | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 joy | punct |
| 31 | With | with | ADP | _ | 33 joy | case |
| 32 | passive | passive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 joy | amod |
| 33 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Demon | appos |
| 34 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 joy | acl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 Crowd | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Crowd | det |
| 37 | Crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 succeeded | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 yawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gape | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | yawn | past | the gaping Mountain | side | to side | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to side=Recipient | |||
| 3 | exult | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | pipe | gerund | th exulting Demon not said here | loud property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | succeed | participle | passive joy not said here | by the Crowd | vn succeed-74-1 «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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