The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 58
But it sounded horrid, and an echo came out from the kiln that seemed almost like the howl of a wolf.
Who acts: collar, echo, kiln, wolf · What happens: sound, come out, seem, howl · To what, where: kiln, howl
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (collar, echo, kiln, wolf), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 sounded | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sounded | nsubj |
| 3 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sounded | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 echo | det |
| 8 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sounded | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 kiln | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kiln | det |
| 13 | kiln | kiln | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kiln | acl:relcl |
| 16 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 19 howl | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 howl | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 howl | det |
| 19 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seemed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wolf | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wolf | det |
| 22 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 howl | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | collar | horrid property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | a echo | the kiln | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | seem | past | the kiln | the howl of a wolf | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme howl=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | howl | a wolf | nom howl «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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