The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 25
This time the giant spoke; his voice was very terrible, for it was the rumble of thunder in the clouds. '
Who acts: giant, voice · What happens: speak, be · To what, where: clouds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, voice), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 terrible | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 voice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 terrible | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 terrible | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 terrible | advmod |
| 11 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spoke | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rumble | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 rumble | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rumble | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rumble | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rumble | det |
| 17 | rumble | rumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 terrible | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 thunder | case |
| 19 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rumble | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 clouds | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 clouds | det |
| 22 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rumble | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the giant | time | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Makoma's voice | terrible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | voice | the clouds | for the rumble; of thunder | tree rules |
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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