The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 107

At midday, when the sun was right overhead, he heard a rumbling noise from the river, and looking up he saw the head and shoulders of an enormous man emerging from it.

Who acts: sun, Makoma, enormous man · What happens: be, hear, look up, see, emerge · To what, where: rumbling noise, midday, head, sun

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Makoma, enormous man), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 midday	case
2	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 right	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 right	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 right	cop
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 midday	parataxis
9	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	8 right	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 midday	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 noise	det
14	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 noise	compound
15	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 saw	cc
21	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 saw	advcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 looking	compound:prt
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 head	det
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saw	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 shoulders	cc
28	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 head	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 man	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 head	nmod
33	emerging	emerge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 man	acl
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 emerging	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun			overhead, right property	tree rules
2	hear	past	Makoma	a rumbling noise	midday	from the river	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent noise=Topic from river=Source
3	look up	gerund	Makoma not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	past	Makoma	the head of a enormous man and shoulders			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus
5	emerge	gerund	a enormous man not said here		sun		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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