The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 26

The trees were so thick and the wood so dark, that he paused for a moment and listened, straining his ears to catch some sound to break a silence which almost frightened him.

Who acts: trees, tree · What happens: be, pause, listen, strain, catch, break · To what, where: ears, sound, silence

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, tree), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thick	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thick	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 thick	advmod
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wood	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thick	conj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 dark	advmod
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thick	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 paused	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 paused	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 paused	nsubj
14	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thick	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 moment	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 moment	det
17	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 paused	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 listened	cc
19	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 paused	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 straining	punct
21	straining	strain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 listened	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 ears	nmod:poss
23	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 straining	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 catch	mark
25	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 straining	advcl
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 sound	det
27	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 catch	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 break	mark
29	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 catch	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 silence	det
31	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 break	obj
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 frightened	obj
33	almost	almost	ADV	_	34 frightened	advmod
34	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 silence	acl:relcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 frightened	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the trees			thick property	tree rules
2	be		the trees not said here				tree rules
3	pause	past	tree		moment		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	listen	past	tree not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	strain	gerund	tree not said here	tree's ears			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent ear=Source
6	catch	to-infinitive	tree not said here	some sound			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
7	break	to-infinitive	tree not said here	a silence			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer silence=Patient
8	frighten	past		a silence		almost property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer he=Result

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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