The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 7
Suddenly she heard a rustling among the willows, and an old woman appeared before her.
Who acts: river, old woman · What happens: hear, appear · To what, where: rustling
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, old woman), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rustling | det |
| 5 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 willows | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 willows | det |
| 8 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appeared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 appeared | cc |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 appeared | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | river | a rustling | among the willows; suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustling=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | appear | past | a old woman | before river | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=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 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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