The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 19
As the arrow touched the ground a rumbling was heard, and with a roar a fire broke out which seemed to split the whole mountain into pieces.
Who acts: fire · What happens: touch, hear, break out, seem, split · To what, where: ground, rumbling, whole mountain, pieces
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 arrow | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 arrow | det |
| 3 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touched | obl |
| 4 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touched | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rumbling | det |
| 8 | rumbling | rumbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | aux:pass |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 touched | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 broke | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 broke | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 roar | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 roar | det |
| 15 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 broke | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fire | det |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 broke | nsubj |
| 18 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 touched | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 broke | compound:prt |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 seemed | nsubj |
| 21 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 broke | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 split | mark |
| 23 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 seemed | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mountain | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mountain | amod |
| 26 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 split | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 pieces | case |
| 28 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 split | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | the ground | as the arrow | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | a rumbling | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | break out | past | a fire | with a roar | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 5 | split | to-infinitive | the whole mountain | into pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient into piece=Result |
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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