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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 88

All of a sudden the silence was broken by a low wail, answered by another from the other side of the pool, as the mother rose up from her den and came towards them, rage flashing from her horrible yellow eyes.

Who acts: low wail, mother, rage · What happens: break, answer, rise up, come, flash · To what, where: All, low wail, other side, den, rage, horrible yellow eyes

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (low wail, mother, rage), 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

nsubj:passcasedetamoddetnmodaux:passcasedetamodoblpunctaclcaseoblcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodpunctmarkdetnsubjparataxisadvmodcasenmod:possoblccconjcaseoblpunctoblaclcasenmod:possamodamodoblpunctrootAllDETofADPaDETsuddenADJtheDETsilenceNOUNwasAUXbrokenVERBbyADPaDETlowADJwailNOUN,PUNCTansweredVERBbyADPanotherDETfromADPtheDETotherADJsideNOUNofADPtheDETpoolNOUN,PUNCTasSCONJtheDETmotherNOUNroseVERBupADVfromADPherPRONdenNOUNandCCONJcameVERBtowardsADPthemPRON,PUNCTrageNOUNflashingVERBfromADPherPRONhorribleADJyellowADJeyesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AllallDETPronType=Tot8 brokennsubj:pass
2ofofADP_6 silencecase
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 silencedet
4suddensuddenADJDegree=Pos6 silenceamod
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 silencedet
6silencesilenceNOUNNumber=Sing1 Allnmod
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 brokenaux:pass
8brokenbreakVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
9bybyADP_12 wailcase
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 waildet
11lowlowADJDegree=Pos12 wailamod
12wailwailNOUNNumber=Sing8 brokenobl
13,,PUNCT_14 answeredpunct
14answeredanswerVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass12 wailacl
15bybyADP_16 anothercase
16anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind14 answeredobl
17fromfromADP_20 sidecase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 sidedet
19otherotherADJDegree=Pos20 sideamod
20sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing14 answeredobl
21ofofADP_23 poolcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 pooldet
23poolpoolNOUNNumber=Sing20 sidenmod
24,,PUNCT_28 rosepunct
25asasSCONJ_28 rosemark
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 motherdet
27mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing28 rosensubj
28roseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 brokenparataxis
29upupADV_28 roseadvmod
30fromfromADP_32 dencase
31herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 dennmod:poss
32dendenNOUNNumber=Sing28 roseobl
33andandCCONJ_34 camecc
34camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 roseconj
35towardstowardsADP_36 themcase
36themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs34 cameobl
37,,PUNCT_38 ragepunct
38ragerageNOUNNumber=Sing34 cameobl
39flashingflashVERBVerbForm=Ger38 rageacl
40fromfromADP_44 eyescase
41herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs44 eyesnmod:poss
42horriblehorribleADJDegree=Pos44 eyesamod
43yellowyellowADJDegree=Pos44 eyesamod
44eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur39 flashingobl
45..PUNCT_8 brokenpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1breakpast · passivea low wailAllvn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient
2answer speech: assertparticiplea low wail not said herethe other side of the poolby anothervn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3rise uppastthe mothermother's denvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from den=Initial_Location
4comepastthe mother not said hereragetowards roots = rootvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial_Location
5flashgerundrage not said heremother's horrible yellow eyesvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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