The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 104
A sudden silence round him made him look up, and he found the eyes of the assembly fixed on him.
Who acts: sudden silence, king · What happens: make, look up, find, fix · To what, where: king, eyes, assembly
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sudden silence, king), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 silence | det |
| 2 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 silence | amod |
| 3 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 silence | nmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 look | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eyes | det |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 found | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 assembly | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 assembly | det |
| 18 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eyes | nmod |
| 19 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 assembly | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fixed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | a sudden silence round king | king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look up | infinitive | king not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | find | past | king | the eyes of the assembly | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fix | participle | the assembly not said here | on king | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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