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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 silence | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 silence | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 silence | amod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 silence | det |
| 6 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 All | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 broken | aux:pass |
| 8 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 wail | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wail | det |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wail | amod |
| 12 | wail | wail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broken | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wail | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 another | case |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 answered | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 side | amod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 pool | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pool | det |
| 23 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 side | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rose | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 rose | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 mother | det |
| 27 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rose | nsubj |
| 28 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 broken | parataxis |
| 29 | up | up | ADV | _ | 28 rose | advmod |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 den | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 den | nmod:poss |
| 32 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rose | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 came | cc |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 rose | conj |
| 35 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 came | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 rage | punct |
| 38 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 came | obl |
| 39 | flashing | flash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 rage | acl |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 eyes | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 42 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 eyes | amod |
| 43 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 eyes | amod |
| 44 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 flashing | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | a low wail | All | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | participle | a low wail not said here | the other side of the pool | by another | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | rise up | past | the mother | mother's den | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from den=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the mother not said here | rage | towards roots = root | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | flash | gerund | rage not said here | mother's horrible yellow eyes | vn 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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