The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 88

In a few minutes a dark cloud came rolling up the sky, giving out such terrific claps of thunder that the wolves and the foxes and all the other creatures ran helter-skelter in all directions.

Who acts: dark cloud, wolves, helter · What happens: come, roll up, give out, run, skelter, clap · To what, where: sky, such terrific claps, directions, thunder

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 (dark cloud, wolves, helter), 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	_	4 minutes	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minutes	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 minutes	amod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cloud	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cloud	amod
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 rolling	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rolling	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 giving	punct
14	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 giving	compound:prt
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 claps	amod
17	terrific	terrific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 claps	amod
18	claps	clap	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 giving	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 thunder	case
20	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 claps	nmod
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 ran	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wolves	det
23	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ran	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 foxes	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 foxes	det
26	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wolves	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 creatures	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 creatures	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 creatures	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 creatures	amod
31	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wolves	conj
32	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 claps	acl:relcl
33	helter	helter	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 skelter	nsubj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 helter	punct
35	skelter	skelter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 ran	ccomp
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 directions	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 directions	det
38	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 skelter	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	a dark cloud			minute	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roll up	gerund	a dark cloud not said here	the sky			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Agent
3	give out	gerund	a dark cloud not said here	such terrific claps of thunder			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent clap=Theme
4	run	past	the wolves and the foxes and all other creatures	such terrific claps of thunder			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent that=Theme clause=Eventuality
5	skelter	infinitive	helter		all directions		tree rules
6	clap			thunder			nom clap «event transitive»: of=patient

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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