The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 37
Behind him the dust cloud moved to the sound of the thunder of hoofs, whilst here and there flashed the glitter of steel.
Who acts: dust cloud, hoofs · What happens: move, flash, thunder · To what, where: sound, glitter
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dust cloud, hoofs), 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 moved | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cloud | det |
| 4 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cloud | compound |
| 5 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moved | nsubj |
| 6 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sound | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moved | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thunder | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thunder | det |
| 12 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hoofs | case |
| 14 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thunder | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 here | punct |
| 16 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 17 here | case |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 moved | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flashed | cc |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 flashed | advmod |
| 20 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 here | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 glitter | det |
| 22 | glitter | glitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flashed | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 steel | case |
| 24 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 glitter | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | the dust cloud | the sound of the thunder of hoofs | behind king | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme behind he=Source to sound=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | flash | past | the dust cloud not said here | the glitter of steel | there | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glitter=Theme | |||
| 3 | thunder | hoofs | nom thunder «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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