The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 4
The sound awoke all the sleeping echoes in the castle, and was repeated now loudly, now softly; now near, and now far.
Who acts: sound, sleeping · What happens: awake, echo, repeat · To what, where: castle
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, sleeping), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 sleeping | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sleeping | det |
| 6 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 echoes | nsubj |
| 7 | echoes | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 echoes | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 repeated | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 repeated | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 repeated | aux:pass |
| 14 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 awoke | conj |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 loudly | advmod |
| 16 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 14 repeated | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 softly | punct |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 softly | advmod |
| 19 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 14 repeated | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 near | punct |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 near | advmod |
| 22 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 far | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 far | cc |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 far | advmod |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the sound | far, near property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | echo | present | all sleeping | the castle | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | ||||
| 3 | repeat | past · passive | the sound not said here | loudly, softly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V» |
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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