The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 9
Then came the sound of battle from the ground below, and the tree shook, though there was no wind, and roars and snarls mixed together, till the eaglets felt more frightened than ever, and thought their last hour had come.
Who acts: tree, wind, eaglets, last hour · What happens: come, shake, be, mix, feel, frighten · To what, where: sound, roars · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tree, wind, eaglets, last hour), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 battle | case |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sound | nmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 battle | nmod |
| 10 | below | below | ADV | _ | 9 ground | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shook | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shook | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shook | nsubj |
| 15 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 was | punct |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 was | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shook | parataxis |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 wind | det |
| 21 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 mixed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mixed | cc |
| 24 | roars | roar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 mixed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 snarls | cc |
| 26 | snarls | snarl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 roars | conj |
| 27 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | conj |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 27 mixed | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 felt | punct |
| 30 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 33 felt | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 eaglets | det |
| 32 | eaglets | eaglet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 felt | nsubj |
| 33 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 mixed | parataxis |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 frightened | advmod |
| 35 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 felt | advcl |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 ever | case |
| 37 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 frightened | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 thought | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 thought | cc |
| 40 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 felt | conj |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 hour | nmod:poss |
| 42 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 hour | amod |
| 43 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 come | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 come | aux |
| 45 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 thought | ccomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the sound of battle from the ground | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | the tree | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | be | past | no wind | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mix | participle · passive | roars and snarls | together property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | the eaglets | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | frighten | participle | the eaglets not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | think speech: other | past | the eaglets not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | come | past · perfect | eaglets's last hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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