Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 35

All at once there was a whir-ring sound in the air, and the cup was knocked from his hands.

Who acts: All · What happens: be, knock · To what, where: ring sound, air, cup

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The King and His Hawk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sound	nsubj
2	at	at	SCONJ	_	5 was	mark
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 was	advmod
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sound	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sound	det
7	whir	whir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ring	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 whir	punct
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sound	compound
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 air	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sound	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knocked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 knocked	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cup	det
17	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knocked	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 knocked	aux:pass
19	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sound	conj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 hands	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 knocked	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	All	a ring sound		the air			tree rules
2	knock	past · passive		the cup				from hawk's hands	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from hand=Co-Patient

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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