The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 113

The cock flew round the room like a mad thing, and crowed till their heads nearly split with the noise; but no gold or diamonds dropped on the brick floor—not the tiniest grain of either.

Who acts: cock · What happens: fly, crow, split, drop · To what, where: room, diamonds, brick floor

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cock), 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 cock	det
2	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 thing	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crowed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 crowed	cc
13	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
14	till	till	ADP	_	16 heads	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heads	nmod:poss
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 crowed	obl
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 split	advmod
18	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 crowed	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 noise	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 noise	det
21	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 split	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 gold	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 gold	cc
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 gold	det
25	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	conj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 diamonds	cc
27	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 gold	conj
28	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 diamonds	acl
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 floor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 floor	det
31	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 floor	compound
32	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dropped	obl
33	—	-	PUNCT	_	37 grain	punct
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 grain	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 grain	det
36	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 grain	amod
37	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gold	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 either	case
39	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	37 grain	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the cock		the room		like a mad thing	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round room=Trajectory
2	crow	past	the cock not said here			till things's heads		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	split	present	the cock not said here				with the noise; nearly property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with noise=Instrument
4	drop	participle		diamonds not said here	the brick floor			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory

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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