The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 42
Immediately all happened as before; the thunder and the shower of hail which killed many of Arthur’s men; the song of the birds and the appearance of the black knight.
Who acts: hail, birds · What happens: happen, kill, sing · To what, where: song, many
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hail, birds), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 before | case |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 thunder | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thunder | det |
| 8 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shower | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shower | det |
| 11 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thunder | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hail | case |
| 13 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shower | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 killed | nsubj |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hail | acl:relcl |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 killed | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 men | case |
| 18 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 men | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Arthur | case |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 many | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 song | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 song | det |
| 23 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 birds | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 birds | det |
| 26 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 song | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 appearance | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 appearance | det |
| 29 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 birds | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 knight | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 knight | det |
| 32 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 knight | amod |
| 33 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 appearance | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the song of the birds and the appearance of the black knight | all, before, immediately property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | hail | many of Arthur's men | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing | the birds and the appearance of the black knight | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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