Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 36

One shriek of terror was heard, and then all was still save the sound of the moaning waters.

Who acts: all · What happens: hear, be, moan, shriek · To what, where: One shriek, terror

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The White Ship.. 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 shriek	nummod
2	shriek	shriek	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 terror	case
4	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shriek	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux:pass
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 save	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 save	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 all	advmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 save	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 save	cop
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 save	advmod
13	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heard	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sound	det
15	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 save	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 waters	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 waters	det
18	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 waters	amod
19	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sound	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · passive		One shriek of terror			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	is	past	all		still	save property	tree rules
3	moan	gerund					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shriek			terror			nom shriek «communication transitive»: of=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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