The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 40
Then a great scuffling of feet was heard, and in a few minutes the hall was clear.
Who acts: hall · What happens: hear, be · To what, where: great scuffling
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hall), 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 | 8 heard | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 scuffling | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 scuffling | amod |
| 4 | scuffling | scuffling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scuffling | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux:pass |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 clear | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 clear | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 minutes | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 minutes | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 minutes | amod |
| 14 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 clear | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clear | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 clear | cop |
| 18 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heard | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | a great scuffling of feet | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the hall | minute | clear property | tree rules |
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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