The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 73
The rock stopped at once, but there came a shriek from the wolverine:
Who acts: rock · What happens: stop, come · To what, where: shriek
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 (rock), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rock | det |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 stopped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 came | expl |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shriek | det |
| 11 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 wolverine | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wolverine | det |
| 14 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the rock | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the rock not said here | a shriek | there | from the wolverine | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shriek=Theme |
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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