The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 25

How long it was since she had set out in the morning she could not tell—it seemed years to her, of course; but the sun was still high in the heavens when she heard the sound of wheels, and then, with a great effort, for her throat was parched with fright and pain, she gave a shout.

Who acts: Ingibjorg, it, sun · What happens: set out, not tell, seem, be, hear, parch · To what, where: pain, Ingibjorg, heavens, sound, throat, shout · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ingibjorg, it, sun), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 set	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 set	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 set	aux:pass
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 set	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 set	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 set	aux
8	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 tell	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 set	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 morning	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 morning	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 seemed	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	ccomp
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seemed	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seemed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 of	punct
24	of	of	ADP	_	19 seemed	xcomp
25	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 of	fixed
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 high	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 high	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sun	det
29	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 high	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 high	cop
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 high	advmod
32	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tell	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 heavens	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 heavens	det
35	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 high	obl
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 heard	advmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 heard	nsubj
38	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 heavens	acl:relcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sound	det
40	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 heard	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 wheels	case
42	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 sound	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 effort	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 effort	cc
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 effort	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 effort	punct
47	with	with	ADP	_	50 effort	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 effort	det
49	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 effort	amod
50	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 parched	punct
52	for	for	SCONJ	_	56 parched	mark
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 throat	nmod:poss
54	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 parched	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 parched	aux:pass
56	parched	parch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 tell	ccomp
57	with	with	ADP	_	58 fright	case
58	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 parched	obl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 pain	cc
60	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 fright	conj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 gave	punct
62	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 gave	nsubj
63	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 parched	conj
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 shout	det
65	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 gave	obj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past · perfect · passive		pain			morning	long property	tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	could	Ingibjorg					with a great effort	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seem	past	it		Ingibjorg		year		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the sun			the heavens	still	high property	tree rules
5	hear	past	Ingibjorg	the sound of wheels					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
6	parch	past · passive		Ingibjorg's throat				with fright and pain	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fright=Instrument
7	give	past	Ingibjorg	a shout					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=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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