The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 29

The noise was so loud that it was certain to awaken the cowboys, however fatigued they might be, and they dragged themselves wearily to the stable to put back the chains.

Who acts: noise, it, cowboys · What happens: be, awaken, fatigue, drag, put back · To what, where: cowboys, stable, chains

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, it, cowboys), 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 noise	det
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loud	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 loud	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 certain	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 certain	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 certain	cop
9	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 loud	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 awaken	mark
11	awaken	awaken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 certain	csubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cowboys	det
13	cowboys	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 awaken	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fatigued	punct
15	however	however	ADV	_	16 fatigued	advmod
16	fatigued	fatigue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 loud	conj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 be	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 be	aux
19	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fatigued	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dragged	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dragged	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dragged	nsubj
23	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	conj
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 dragged	obj
25	wearily	wearily	ADV	_	28 stable	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 stable	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stable	det
28	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dragged	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 put	mark
30	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 stable	acl
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 put	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 chains	det
33	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 put	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the noise			loud property	tree rules
2	is	past	it			certain property	tree rules
3	awaken	to-infinitive		the cowboys			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cowboy=Theme
4	fatigue	participle	the noise not said here			however property	tree rules
5	be	might	cowboys = cowboy				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	drag	past	cowboys = cowboy	cowboys = cowboy	the stable		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme to stable=Destination
7	put back	to-infinitive	cowboys = cowboy not said here	the chains			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent chain=Goal

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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