The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 104
One day he was standing looking at the mountain opposite, when he heard a kind of rumbling noise in the room behind him.
Who acts: middle, kind · What happens: stand, look, hear, rumble · To what, where: kind, noise, room
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (middle, kind), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 standing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 standing | aux |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 standing | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 opposite | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 opposite | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opposite | compound |
| 10 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 heard | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 standing | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 kind | det |
| 16 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obj |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 rumbling | mark |
| 18 | rumbling | rumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 kind | acl |
| 19 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rumbling | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rumbling | obl |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 room | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | middle | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | middle not said here | at the mountain opposite | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at opposite=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | middle | a kind | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | rumble | gerund | a kind not said here | noise | the room behind middle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location noise=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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