The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 33
Father Grumbler felt quite frightened at the torrent, but at last he remembered what the Holy Man had told him, and cried at the top of his voice: “Enough! enough!
Who acts: Father, Holy Man · What happens: feel, frighten, remember, tell, cry · To what, where: torrent, last, Father, top · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Father, Holy Man), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | Grumbler | Grumbler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Father | flat |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 torrent | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 torrent | det |
| 8 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frightened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 remembered | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 remembered | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remembered | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 remembered | nsubj |
| 14 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 told | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Man | det |
| 17 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 18 Man | compound |
| 18 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 told | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 told | aux |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 remembered | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | iobj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cried | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cried | cc |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cried | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 voice | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 voice | nmod:poss |
| 30 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 top | nmod |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 Enough | punct |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Enough | punct |
| 33 | Enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cried | conj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 Enough | punct |
| 35 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 33 Enough | advmod |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Father | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | frighten | participle | Father not said here | the torrent | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | remember | past | Father | last | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | the Holy Man | Father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | Father not said here | the top of Father's voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location |
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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