Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 10
In the darkness of the night, above the noise of the winds and waves, she heard screams and wild cries.
Who acts: Grace, winds · What happens: hear, noise · To what, where: screams, darkness
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Grace Darling.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grace, winds), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 darkness | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 darkness | det |
| 3 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 darkness | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 noise | punct |
| 8 | above | above | ADP | _ | 10 noise | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 noise | det |
| 10 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 darkness | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 winds | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 winds | det |
| 13 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 noise | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 waves | cc |
| 15 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 winds | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 darkness | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | screams | scream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 heard | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cries | cc |
| 21 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cries | amod |
| 22 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 screams | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Grace | screams and wild cries | the darkness of the night and the noise of the winds and waves | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer scream=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | noise | the winds and waves | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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