The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 32

When, suddenly, a voice was heard from behind: 'Look! look! what is that bright thing that is moving so swiftly towards us?'

Who acts: you, bright thing · What happens: hear, look, be, move · To what, where: voice, bright thing

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bright thing), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	8 heard	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 voice	det
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	aux:pass
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 Look	advcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 behind	case
10	behind	behind	ADV	_	8 heard	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Look	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 Look	punct
13	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 Look	punct
15	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 Look	conj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 thing	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 thing	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 thing	cop
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 thing	det
20	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 look	parataxis
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 moving	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 moving	aux
24	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 thing	acl:relcl
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 swiftly	advmod
26	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	24 moving	advmod
27	towards	towards	ADP	_	28 us	case
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 moving	obl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 Look	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · passive		a voice	suddenly property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from behind=Source
2	look	imperative	you not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	look	infinitive	you not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a	present		that bright thing		tree rules
5	move	present · progressive	that bright thing		towards us; swiftly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards we=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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