The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 130
Straightway it appeared, and by the majesty of its presence made the city quake.
Who acts: Straightway · What happens: appear, make · To what, where: city quake
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (Straightway), 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 | Straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 majesty | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 majesty | det |
| 8 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 presence | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 presence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 majesty | nmod |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 quake | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quake | compound |
| 15 | quake | quake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Straightway | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past | Straightway not said here | the city quake | by the majesty of Straightway's presence | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset quake=Product |
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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