The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 15
This terrible gift made the whole company tremble, and everybody fell a-crying.
Who acts: terrible gift, everybody · What happens: make, fall, cry · To what, where: whole company tremble
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrible gift, everybody), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 gift | det |
| 2 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gift | amod |
| 3 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tremble | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tremble | amod |
| 7 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tremble | compound |
| 8 | tremble | tremble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 11 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 crying | det |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 a | punct |
| 15 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 fell | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | this terrible gift | the whole company tremble | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tremble=Product | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | everybody | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | everybody not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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