The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 43
The next moment there was a rushing noise as of a mighty tempest, and the young man caught a glimpse of a face turned towards him.
Who acts: next moment, glimpse · What happens: rush, catch, turn, glimpse · To what, where: face
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next moment, glimpse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moment | amod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 moment | acl:relcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 noise | det |
| 7 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 noise | amod |
| 8 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 13 tempest | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tempest | det |
| 12 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tempest | amod |
| 13 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 caught | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 caught | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caught | nsubj |
| 19 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 glimpse | det |
| 21 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 face | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 face | det |
| 24 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glimpse | nmod |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 caught | conj |
| 26 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 turned | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | catch | past | the next moment | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | a glimpse of a face | towards man | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards he=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | glimpse | a face | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=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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