Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 70

Above the roaring of the flames, above the crashing of the falling spars, above the booming of the guns, he fancied that his father's voice came faintly to him through the scorching air.

Who acts: father, voice, flames · What happens: fall, fancy, come, scorch, roar · To what, where: roaring, father, scorching air

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, voice, flames), 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	Above	above	ADP	_	3 roaring	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 roaring	det
3	roaring	roaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fancied	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 flames	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flames	det
6	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roaring	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crashing	punct
8	above	above	ADP	_	10 crashing	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crashing	det
10	crashing	crashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roaring	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 spars	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spars	det
13	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 spars	amod
14	spars	spar	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 crashing	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 booming	punct
16	above	above	ADP	_	18 booming	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 booming	det
18	booming	booming	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spars	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 guns	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 guns	det
21	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 booming	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 roaring	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fancied	nsubj
24	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 came	mark
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 voice	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 father	case
29	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fancied	advcl
31	faintly	faintly	ADV	_	30 came	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 came	obl
34	through	through	ADP	_	37 air	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 air	det
36	scorching	scorch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 air	amod
37	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fancy	past	father		the roaring of the flames and the crashing of the falling spars		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	past	father's father's voice	father	the scorching air	faintly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location through air=Destination
4	scorch	gerund					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	roar		the flames				nom roaring «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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