Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 98
About the middle of the night a tempest arose outside, and there was a rustling and a roaring, a hissing and a wailing.
Who acts: tempest, rustling · What happens: arise, be
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 (tempest, rustling), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arose | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tempest | det |
| 8 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arose | nsubj |
| 9 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 9 arose | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 was | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arose | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rustling | det |
| 16 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 roaring | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 roaring | det |
| 19 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rustling | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hissing | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hissing | det |
| 22 | hissing | hissing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rustling | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wailing | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wailing | det |
| 25 | wailing | wailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rustling | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | a tempest | about the middle of the night; outside property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about middle=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a rustling and a roaring and a hissing and a wailing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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