The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 25
Instantly a great noise was heard and a golden coach rumbled over the stones, with a white flag waving out of the window.
Who acts: white flag · What happens: hear, rumble, wave · To what, where: great noise, golden coach, stones, window
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white flag), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 6 heard | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 noise | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 noise | amod |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | aux:pass |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 heard | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 coach | det |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 coach | amod |
| 10 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 11 | rumbled | rumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 coach | acl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 stones | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stones | det |
| 14 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rumbled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flag | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 flag | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 flag | det |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 flag | amod |
| 19 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rumbled | obl |
| 20 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 flag | acl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 window | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 window | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 window | det |
| 24 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 waving | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | a great noise | instantly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rumble | participle | a golden coach not said here | the stones | with a white flag | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stone=Location | |||
| 3 | wave | gerund | a white flag not said here | the window | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out window=Location |
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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