The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 10
He then began to pour in the gold by handfuls, when, all at once, a noise like thunder shook the castle.
Who acts: Jack, noise · What happens: begin, pour, shake · To what, where: gold, castle
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, noise), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pour | mark |
| 5 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gold | det |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pour | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 handfuls | case |
| 10 | handfuls | handful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pour | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 when | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 pour | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shook | punct |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 shook | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 all | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shook | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 noise | det |
| 19 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shook | nsubj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 thunder | case |
| 21 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 noise | nmod |
| 22 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 castle | det |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shook | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Jack | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pour | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | the gold | by handfuls | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||
| 3 | shake | past | a noise like thunder | the castle | all property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent castle=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: «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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