Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 80
A little after midnight there was a rustling and an uproar, and the whole church shook.
Who acts: rustling, whole church · What happens: be, shake · To what, where: little
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rustling, whole church), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 was | obl |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 midnight | case |
| 4 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 little | nmod |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 shook | parataxis |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rustling | det |
| 8 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 uproar | cc |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 uproar | det |
| 11 | uproar | uproar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rustling | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shook | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shook | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 church | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 church | amod |
| 16 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shook | nsubj |
| 17 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a rustling and a uproar | a little after midnight | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | shake | past | the whole church | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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