The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 12

At every little noise—the falling of a leaf, the rustle of an animal in the bushes, the cry of a night-bird—he sprang up and cocked his pistol in the direction of the sound.

Who acts: manner, animal, night bird · What happens: spring up, cock, rustle, cry · To what, where: little noise, pistol

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner, animal, night bird), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 noise	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 noise	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 noise	amod
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sprang	obl
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 falling	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 falling	det
7	falling	falling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 noise	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 leaf	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 leaf	det
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 falling	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rustle	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rustle	det
13	rustle	rustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 falling	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 animal	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 animal	det
16	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rustle	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 bushes	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bushes	det
19	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 animal	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cry	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cry	det
22	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 falling	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 bird	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bird	det
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bird	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 night	punct
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cry	nmod
28	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 noise	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sprang	nsubj
30	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 sprang	compound:prt
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cocked	cc
33	cocked	cock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sprang	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 pistol	nmod:poss
35	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cocked	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 direction	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 direction	det
38	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cocked	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 sound	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sound	det
41	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 direction	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring up	past	manner		every little noise		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at noise=Location
2	cock	past	manner not said here	manner's pistol		in the direction of the sound	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent pistol=Patient in direction=Topic
3	rustle		a animal in the bushes				nom rustle «event intransitive»: of=agent
4	cry		a night bird				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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