The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 47

Then suddenly the ground trembled, and the pool, heaving and swirling, became red with blood, and presently the boy rising to the surface swam on shore.

Who acts: ground, boy · What happens: tremble, heave, swirl, become, rise, swim · To what, where: pool, surface, shore

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 (ground, boy), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 trembled	advmod
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 trembled	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trembled	nsubj
5	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pool	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pool	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pool	det
9	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trembled	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heaving	punct
11	heaving	heave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 trembled	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 swirling	cc
13	swirling	swirl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 heaving	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trembled	conj
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 became	xcomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 blood	case
18	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 red	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 swam	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 swam	cc
21	presently	presently	ADV	_	28 swam	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boy	det
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 swam	nsubj
24	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 boy	acl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 surface	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 surface	det
27	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rising	obl
28	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trembled	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 shore	case
30	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 swam	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tremble	past	the ground	the pool		then	suddenly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pool=Theme
2	heave	gerund	the ground not said here					vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	swirl	gerund	the ground not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	the ground not said here				red property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	rise	gerund	the boy not said here		the surface			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location
6	swim	past	the boy		shore		presently property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Trajectory

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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