The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 16

But then came a third rumbling, and a third earthquake, so violent that the boy thought the walls and roof had fallen down, but when that was over everything suddenly grew as still as death around him.

Who acts: third rumbling, boy, walls, that · What happens: come, think, fall down, be · To what, where: third earthquake · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (third rumbling, boy, walls, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rumbling	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 rumbling	amod
6	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 earthquake	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 earthquake	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 earthquake	det
10	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 earthquake	amod
11	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 violent	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 violent	advmod
14	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 thought	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boy	det
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 violent	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 walls	det
20	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fallen	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 roof	cc
22	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walls	conj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fallen	aux
24	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 thought	ccomp
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 fallen	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 grew	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 grew	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 grew	advmod
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 grew	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 grew	cop
31	over	over	SCONJ	_	34 grew	mark
32	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	34 grew	nsubj
33	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	34 grew	advmod
34	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 still	advmod
36	still	still	ADV	_	34 grew	advmod
37	as	as	ADP	_	38 death	case
38	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 grew	obl
39	around	around	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 grew	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a third rumbling	a third earthquake	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	the boy				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	fall down	past · perfect	the walls and roof				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	that		still	as death; around boy; grow, suddenly property	tree rules

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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