The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 100
He and his horse had scarcely found shelter amongst some rocks, when the flap of the dragon’s wings could be plainly heard.
What happens: find, hear · To what, where: dragon, flap
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 horse | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 horse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 He | conj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | aux |
| 6 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 7 found | advmod |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 9 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 11 rocks | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 rocks | det |
| 11 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 heard | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 heard | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flap | det |
| 15 | flap | flap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wings | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dragon | det |
| 18 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wings | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 dragon | case |
| 20 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flap | nmod |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 heard | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 heard | aux:pass |
| 23 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 24 heard | advmod |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · perfect · passive | dragon | amongst some rocks; scarcely property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme shelter=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hear | could · passive | the flap of the dragon's wings | plainly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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