The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 13
No sooner had he done this than a terrible hailstorm burst behind, and the giant was killed on the spot.
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: do, burst, kill · To what, where: this, terrible hailstorm, giant, spot
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 done | obj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 hailstorm | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hailstorm | det |
| 9 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hailstorm | amod |
| 10 | hailstorm | hailstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obl |
| 11 | burst | burst | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hailstorm | acl |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 11 burst | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 killed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 killed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 giant | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 killed | aux:pass |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 done | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 spot | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spot | det |
| 21 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 killed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | Sigurd | this | than a terrible hailstorm; soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | burst | participle | a terrible hailstorm not said here | behind property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | the giant | the spot | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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