Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 6
One morning a great noise of voices and trampling of horses and rattle of armour came about the palace.
Who acts: great noise, voices, horses, armour · What happens: come, noise, trample, rattle
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great noise, voices, horses, armour), 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 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 noise | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 noise | amod |
| 5 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 voices | case |
| 7 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 noise | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 trampling | cc |
| 9 | trampling | trampling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 voices | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 horses | case |
| 11 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 trampling | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rattle | cc |
| 13 | rattle | rattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horses | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 armour | case |
| 15 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rattle | nmod |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a great noise of voices and trampling of horses and rattle of armour | morning | about the palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about palace=Location | |||
| 2 | noise | voices and trampling of horses and rattle of armour | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | trample | horses and rattle of armour | nom trampling «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | rattle | armour | nom rattle «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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