The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 121

‘Ho! how the weather-cock is roaring at the pitch of its voice, as if it had a fire inside it!

Who acts: Ho, voice · What happens: roar, have · To what, where: pitch, fire

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ho, voice), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ho	punct
2	Ho	Ho	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 roaring	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ho	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 roaring	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cock	det
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cock	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 weather	punct
8	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roaring	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 roaring	aux
10	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 pitch	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pitch	det
13	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roaring	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 voice	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 voice	nmod:poss
16	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pitch	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 roaring	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fire	det
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	inside	inside	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 roaring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	present · progressive	Ho			the pitch of pitch's voice			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pitch=Location
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	voice	a fire		fire			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient

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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