The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 112
I heard the crack of a carter’s whip and the noise of wheels in the distance, and when I looked again the spectre had disappeared.”
Who acts: I, spectre, wheels · What happens: hear, look, disappear, noise · To what, where: crack
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, spectre, wheels), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crack | det |
| 4 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 whip | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 carter | det |
| 7 | carter | carter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whip | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 carter | case |
| 9 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crack | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 noise | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 noise | det |
| 12 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whip | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wheels | case |
| 14 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 noise | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 distance | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 distance | det |
| 17 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wheels | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 looked | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 looked | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 looked | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spectre | det |
| 25 | spectre | spectre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 disappeared | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 disappeared | aux |
| 27 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 looked | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | I | the crack of a carter's whip and the noise of wheels in the distance | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crack=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | past | I | again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | disappear | past · perfect | the spectre | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | noise | wheels in the distance | nom noise «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: «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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