The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 26
Well, there was a great cry outside, and the castle walls were heard splitting and cracking.
Who acts: castle walls · What happens: be, hear, split, crack · To what, where: great cry, castle walls
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle walls), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 cry | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cry | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cry | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cry | amod |
| 7 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 7 cry | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heard | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 walls | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walls | compound |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 heard | aux:pass |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cry | conj |
| 16 | splitting | split | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 heard | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cracking | cc |
| 18 | cracking | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 splitting | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a great cry | outside property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | the castle walls | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | split | gerund | the castle walls not said here | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | crack | gerund | the castle walls not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 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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