The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 94
The crew of the royal yacht shouted aloud, the knights stood still with terror, the soldiers were struck dumb and hung their heads.
Who acts: crew · What happens: shout, stand, strike, hang · To what, where: royal yacht, soldiers, heads
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crew), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crew | det |
| 2 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 yacht | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 yacht | det |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 yacht | amod |
| 6 | yacht | yacht | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crew | nmod |
| 7 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 yacht | acl |
| 8 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 7 shouted | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 crew | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knights | det |
| 11 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 stood | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 terror | case |
| 15 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 struck | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 soldiers | det |
| 18 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 struck | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 struck | aux:pass |
| 20 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 stood | conj |
| 21 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 struck | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hung | cc |
| 23 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 struck | conj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heads | nmod:poss |
| 25 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hung | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | participle | the royal yacht not said here | aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the crew of the royal yacht | still | with terror | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | strike | past · passive | the soldiers | dumb property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hang | past | soldiers's heads | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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