The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 107

Whereupon a noise like thunder shook it from top to bottom, fire broke out, and in a few minutes a little heap of ashes lay in the place where it had stood.

Who acts: noise, fire, few minutes · What happens: shake, break out, lay, stand · To what, where: thunder, top, place, fire

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, fire, few minutes), 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	Whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	6 shook	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 noise	det
3	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shook	nsubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 thunder	case
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noise	nmod
6	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 broke	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shook	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 top	case
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shook	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 bottom	case
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 top	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shook	punct
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 broke	nsubj
14	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 broke	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lay	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 minutes	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 minutes	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 minutes	amod
21	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lay	nsubj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 heap	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 heap	amod
24	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 minutes	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 ashes	case
26	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heap	nmod
27	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 broke	parataxis
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 place	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 place	det
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 stood	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stood	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 stood	aux
34	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 place	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shake	past	a noise like thunder	thunder	top to bottom	whereupon property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from top=Trajectory
2	break out	past	fire				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	lay	present	a few minutes		the place		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in place=Destination
4	stand	past · perfect · passive		fire			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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