The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 83
As the carriage slowly passed in front of the old house, where cats from all parts of world seemed to be gathered a song burst from every throat:
Who acts: cats · What happens: pass, seem, gather · To what, where: front, song burst, throat
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cats), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 carriage | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 carriage | det |
| 3 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 front | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seemed | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 seemed | advmod |
| 14 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 parts | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 parts | det |
| 17 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cats | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 parts | nmod |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 house | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 gathered | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 gathered | aux:pass |
| 23 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 seemed | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 burst | det |
| 25 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 burst | compound |
| 26 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gathered | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 throat | case |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 throat | det |
| 29 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 burst | nmod |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | front of the old house | as the carriage; slowly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | cats from all parts of world | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | gather | to-infinitive · passive | cats from all parts of world not said here | a song burst | every throat | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: burst=Theme from throat=Source |
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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