The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 132
At the sound of these words the poor woman nearly went mad with terror.
Who acts: poor woman · What happens: go · To what, where: sound
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sound | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sound | det |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sound | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 went | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 terror | case |
| 14 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mad | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the poor woman | the sound of this words | mad, nearly property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at sound=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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