The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 28
The prince and princess went with the rest, and by the time all were safe on the lawn, down came the building, and made the ground tremble for miles round.
Who acts: prince, all, building · What happens: go, be, come, make · To what, where: lawn, ground tremble
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 (prince, all, building), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 princess | cc |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | conj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 rest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rest | det |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 safe | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 safe | cc |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 safe | obl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 safe | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 safe | cop |
| 16 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 lawn | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lawn | det |
| 19 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 safe | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 building | det |
| 24 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tremble | det |
| 29 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tremble | compound |
| 30 | tremble | tremble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 miles | case |
| 32 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 made | obl |
| 33 | round | round | ADV | _ | 27 made | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the prince and princess | with the rest | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with rest=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all | the lawn | time | safe property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | come | past | the building | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the prince and princess not said here | the ground tremble | for miles; round property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent tremble=Product for mile=Asset |
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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