The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 124

The summer night was as dark as if it had been October, the weather-cock creaked, and the storm was raging in every direction.

Who acts: summer night, rose, weather cock, storm · What happens: be, creak, rage · To what, where: direction

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 (summer night, rose, weather cock, storm), 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	3 night	det
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 night	compound
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dark	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dark	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 dark	advmod
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	12 October	case
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 October	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 October	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 October	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 October	cop
12	October	October	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dark	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 creaked	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cock	det
15	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cock	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 weather	punct
17	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 creaked	nsubj
18	creaked	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dark	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 raging	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 raging	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 storm	det
22	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 raging	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 raging	aux
24	raging	rage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 creaked	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 direction	case
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 direction	det
27	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 raging	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the summer night		dark property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	rose		as October	tree rules
3	creak	past	the weather cock			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	rage	past · progressive	the storm	every direction		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location

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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