Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 16
Their axes rang, the chips flew fast; and soon it trembled, and was ready to fall.
Who acts: axes, chips, army · What happens: ring, fly, tremble, be, fall
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Horatius At the Bridge.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (axes, chips, army), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 axes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rang | nsubj |
| 3 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 flew | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chips | det |
| 6 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rang | conj |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 flew | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 trembled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 trembled | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 trembled | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 trembled | nsubj |
| 13 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rang | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ready | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ready | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ready | cop |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rang | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 fall | mark |
| 19 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ready | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past | posts's axes | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly | past | the chips | fast property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tremble | past | army | soon property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | ready property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fall | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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