The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 58
Oh, what a noise that old woman made as she walked along!
Who acts: noise, woman · What happens: woman, make, walk · To what, where: old woman
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 (noise, woman), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 noise | det |
| 5 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 woman | nsubj |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 woman | acl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 walked | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | advcl |
| 13 | along | along | ADV | _ | 12 walked | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | woman | a noise | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | make | participle | old woman not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | woman | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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: «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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