The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 6
One day, when they were returned, they were sitting out in a green place, and suddenly the crash of thunder struck loudly on their ears, and a wall of mist fell between them, so that they were hidden one from the other.
Who acts: lands, wall, thunder · What happens: return, sit out, strike, fall, hide, crash · To what, where: lands, green place, crash, ears, other
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 (lands, wall, thunder), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 returned | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 returned | aux:pass |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sitting | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sitting | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sitting | aux |
| 11 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 returned | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 sitting | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 place | amod |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crash | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 crash | cc |
| 19 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 21 crash | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 crash | det |
| 21 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 thunder | case |
| 23 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crash | nmod |
| 24 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 crash | acl |
| 25 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 24 struck | advmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 ears | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 ears | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 struck | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fell | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fell | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 wall | det |
| 32 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fell | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 mist | case |
| 34 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wall | nmod |
| 35 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 returned | conj |
| 36 | between | between | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 fell | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 hidden | punct |
| 39 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 43 hidden | mark |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 so | fixed |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 hidden | aux:pass |
| 43 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 fell | conj |
| 44 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 hidden | obj |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 other | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 other | det |
| 47 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 hidden | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · passive | lands = land | day | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit out | past · progressive | lands = land | a green place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 3 | strike | participle | the crash of thunder not said here | lands's ears | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ear=Location | |||
| 4 | fall | past | a wall of mist | between lands = land | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between they=Location | ||||
| 5 | hide | past · passive | lands = land | the other | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | crash | thunder | nom crash «event 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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