The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 52
Night now came on, and there arose a terribly high wind, which made them dreadfully afraid.
Who acts: high wind · What happens: come on, arise, make · To what, where: high wind, birds
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (high wind), 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 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 arose | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 arose | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 arose | expl |
| 8 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 10 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 11 high | advmod |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wind | amod |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arose | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wind | acl:relcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 18 afraid | advmod |
| 18 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 made | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past | now; night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | arise | past | a high wind | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wind=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | a high wind | birds = bird | afraid property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
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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