The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 50
Then thunder was heard and a veil of darkness descended upon them, and the castle vanished and they with it.
Who acts: castle · What happens: hear, descend, vanish · To what, where: thunder, veil
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux:pass |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 descended | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 veil | det |
| 7 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 descended | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 darkness | case |
| 9 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 veil | nmod |
| 10 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 descended | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 vanished | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 vanished | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vanished | nsubj |
| 17 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 it | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 it | nsubj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 vanished | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | thunder | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | descend | participle · passive | a veil of darkness | upon hands = hand | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | vanish | past | the castle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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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