Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 22
They had hardly reached the other side when there was a crashing of beams and timbers.
Who acts: roads, crashing · What happens: reach, be · To what, where: other side
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 (roads, crashing), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 side | amod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 was | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crashing | det |
| 12 | crashing | crashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 beams | case |
| 14 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 crashing | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 timbers | cc |
| 16 | timbers | timber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 beams | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | roads = road | the other side | hardly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | a crashing of beams and timbers | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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