The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 12

When he got there he went into the barn and lay down, but in about an hour’s time the rumbling and creaking began, and it was frightful to hear it.

Who acts: Cinderlad, rumbling, it · What happens: get, go, lay down, creak, begin, be · To what, where: barn

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderlad, rumbling, it), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 barn	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 barn	det
9	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lay	cc
11	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	conj
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	20 time	case
16	about	about	ADV	_	18 hour	advmod
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hour	det
18	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 time	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 hour	case
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 began	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rumbling	det
22	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 began	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 creaking	cc
24	creaking	creak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 rumbling	conj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 frightful	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 frightful	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 frightful	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 frightful	cop
30	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 began	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 hear	mark
32	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 frightful	csubj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hear	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Cinderlad		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	past	Cinderlad		the barn			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into barn=Initial_Location
3	lay down	infinitive	Cinderlad not said here				down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	creak	gerund	the rumbling not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	the rumbling			time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	is	past	it				frightful property	tree rules
7	hear	to-infinitive		barn				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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