The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 53

Suddenly he was awakened by a great clatter about his ears, as if all the workmen in the world were sawing and hammering and building close to him.

Who acts: great clatter, workmen · What happens: awaken, saw, hammer, build · To what, where: husband

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great clatter, workmen), 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	_	4 awakened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 awakened	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 awakened	aux:pass
4	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 clatter	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 clatter	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clatter	amod
8	clatter	clatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 awakened	obl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 ears	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ears	nmod:poss
11	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clatter	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sawing	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 sawing	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 sawing	mark
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 workmen	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 workmen	det
17	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sawing	nsubj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 workmen	nmod
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sawing	aux
22	sawing	saw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 awakened	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hammering	cc
24	hammering	hammer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sawing	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 building	cc
26	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sawing	conj
27	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 building	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 building	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 awakened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	awaken	past · passive	a great clatter about husband's ears	husband		suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
2	saw	past · progressive	all workmen in the world				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	hammer	gerund	all workmen in the world not said here				vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
4	build	gerund	all workmen in the world not said here		husband	close property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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