The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 32
With the first stroke of twelve a great noise arose over the silent heath, and the earth seemed to rock under the feet of the two watchers.
Who acts: great noise, earth · What happens: arise, seem · To what, where: silent heath, rock, feet
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great noise, earth), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 stroke | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stroke | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 stroke | amod |
| 4 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arose | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 twelve | case |
| 6 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 stroke | nmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 noise | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 noise | amod |
| 9 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arose | nsubj |
| 10 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 heath | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heath | det |
| 13 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heath | amod |
| 14 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arose | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seemed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seemed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seemed | nsubj |
| 19 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 arose | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 rock | mark |
| 21 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seemed | xcomp |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 feet | det |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 seemed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 watchers | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 watchers | det |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 watchers | nummod |
| 28 | watchers | watcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 feet | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | a great noise | the silent heath | with the first stroke of twelve | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over heath=Location | |||
| 2 | seem | past | the earth | rock | the feet of the two watchers | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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