The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 64
She began to cry, and made such a noise that all the neighbours heard her and put their heads out of the windows, to see what was the matter.
Who acts: wife, neighbours · What happens: begin, cry, make, hear, put, see · To what, where: noise, heads, windows, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, neighbours), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 cry | mark |
| 4 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | parataxis |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 noise | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 noise | det |
| 10 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 heard | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 neighbours | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 neighbours | det |
| 14 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 noise | acl:relcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 heard | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heads | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 windows | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 windows | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 windows | det |
| 24 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | conj |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 matter | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 matter | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 matter | det |
| 31 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | wife | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | such noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | all neighbours | such noise | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put | past | all neighbours not said here | neighbours's heads | the windows | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out window=Destination | |||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules |
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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