The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 75
Immediately afterward they heard a sharp, piercing cry.
Who acts: boulders · What happens: hear · To what, where: sharp piercing cry
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boulders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:2848): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 2 afterward | advmod |
| 2 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cry | det |
| 6 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cry | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 piercing | punct |
| 8 | piercing | piercing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cry | amod |
| 9 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | boulders = boulder | a sharp piercing cry | afterward property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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