The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 32
And at the sound of his voice the big Gudu trembled all over.
Who acts: big Gudu · What happens: tremble · To what, where: sound
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big Gudu), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 trembled | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 sound | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trembled | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 voice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sound | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Gudu | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Gudu | amod |
| 10 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 trembled | nsubj |
| 11 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 over | advmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 trembled | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | the big Gudu | the sound of man's voice | over property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sound=Location |
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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