The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 38
And, worse than that, her sisters began to cluck so loud that the Sister of the Sun was awakened by the noise.
Who acts: sisters, noise · What happens: begin, cluck, awaken · To what, where: Sister
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, noise), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 worse | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 worse | punct |
| 3 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 worse | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worse | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cluck | mark |
| 11 | cluck | cluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 loud | advmod |
| 13 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cluck | xcomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 awakened | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sister | det |
| 16 | Sister | Sister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 awakened | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Sun | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sun | det |
| 19 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sister | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 awakened | aux:pass |
| 21 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 loud | advcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 noise | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 noise | det |
| 24 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 awakened | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 worse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | maiden's sisters | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cluck | to-infinitive | maiden's sisters not said here | loud property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | awaken | past · passive | the noise | the Sister of the Sun | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=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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