The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 34
A silence fell on all the crowd, and even the grumblers held their peace and gazed like the rest.
Who acts: silence, grumblers · What happens: fall, hold, gaze, pacify · To what, where: crowd, peace
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 (silence, grumblers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 silence | det |
| 2 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 crowd | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 crowd | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crowd | det |
| 7 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 held | cc |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 grumblers | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grumblers | det |
| 12 | grumblers | grumbler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 held | nsubj |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 peace | nmod:poss |
| 15 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gazed | cc |
| 17 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 held | conj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 rest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rest | det |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gazed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a silence | all crowd | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on crowd=Location | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the grumblers | grumblers's peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gaze | participle | the grumblers not said here | like the rest | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | pacify | grumblers = grumbler | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/26/34/