The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 82
By the time the dragon had been killed they were very hungry and set up a clamour for food.
Who acts: parents · What happens: kill, be, set up · To what, where: dragon, clamour
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 killed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 killed | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 killed | aux:pass |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hungry | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hungry | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 hungry | advmod |
| 12 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 killed | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hungry | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 clamour | det |
| 17 | clamour | clamour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 food | case |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · perfect · passive | the dragon | time | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | parents = parent | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set up | participle | parents = parent not said here | a clamour | for food | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent clamour=Patient for food=Beneficiary |
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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