The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 22

His tail had scarcely disappeared, when a great noise of crashing branches was heard, and up bounded the horse, his black skin glistening like satin.

Who acts: black skin, crashing branches · What happens: disappear, crash, hear, bound, glisten, noise · To what, where: tail, great noise, horse

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 (black skin, crashing branches), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tail	nmod:poss
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disappeared	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disappeared	aux
4	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	5 disappeared	advmod
5	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 heard	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 noise	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 noise	amod
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 branches	case
12	crashing	crash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 branches	amod
13	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 noise	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	aux:pass
15	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 disappeared	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bounded	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bounded	cc
18	up	up	ADV	_	19 bounded	advmod
19	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disappeared	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 horse	det
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bounded	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 skin	punct
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 skin	nmod:poss
24	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 skin	amod
25	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bounded	obl
26	glistening	glisten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 skin	acl
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 satin	case
28	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 glistening	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 disappeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	disappear	past · perfect · passive		thing's tail	scarcely property	tree rules
2	crash	gerund				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	hear	past · passive		a great noise of crashing branches		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	bound	past		the horse	thing's black skin obl	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location horse=Theme
5	glisten	gerund	thing's black skin not said here		like satin	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	noise		crashing branches			nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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