The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 14

In a little time the creaking began again, and the earth quaked so that all the hay flew about the boy.

Who acts: creaking, earth, hay · What happens: begin, quake, fly

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 (creaking, earth, hay), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 creaking	det
6	creaking	creaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 began	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 quaked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 quaked	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 quaked	nsubj
13	quaked	quake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 flew	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 hay	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hay	det
18	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flew	nsubj
19	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 quaked	advcl
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 boy	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boy	det
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flew	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the creaking	again; time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	quake	past	the earth			vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	fly	past	all hay		about the boy	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about boy=Location

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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