The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 65

In five minutes such a grunting and a puffing was heard, and columns of water rose into the air, though he could not tell what had made them.

Who acts: columns, Hare · What happens: hear, rise, not tell, make · To what, where: grunting, air, columns · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (columns, Hare), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 minutes	case
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 minutes	nummod
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	obl
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 grunting	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 grunting	det
6	grunting	grunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	nsubj:pass
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 puffing	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 puffing	det
9	puffing	puffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grunting	conj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	aux:pass
11	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rose	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rose	cc
14	columns	column	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rose	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 water	case
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 columns	nmod
17	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	parataxis
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 air	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 air	det
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rose	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 tell	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 tell	advmod
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 rose	conj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 made	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 made	aux
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 tell	ccomp
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 made	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear	past · passive		such grunting and a puffing		minute	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	rise	past	columns of water		the air		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location
3	not tell speech: assert	could	Hare				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	past · perfect · passive		columns = column			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Product

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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