The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 29

The next St. John’s eve it was the same thing, once again: neither of the two brothers dared to go to the outlying field to watch the crop, but Cinderlad went, and everything happened exactly the same as on the previous St. John’s eve: first there was a rumbling and an earthquake, and then there was another, and then a third: but all three earthquakes were much, very much more violent than they had been the year before.

Who acts: next eve, neither, Cinderlad, everything, rumbling, another · What happens: be, dare, go, outlie, watch, happen · To what, where: same thing, outlying field, crop

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 (next eve, neither, Cinderlad, everything), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eve	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eve	amod
3	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 John	nmod:desc
4	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 eve	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 John	case
6	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	nsubj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 again	punct
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 again	advmod
14	again	again	ADV	_	11 thing	advmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 neither	punct
16	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	21 dared	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 brothers	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 brothers	det
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 brothers	nummod
20	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 dared	obl
21	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 dared	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 field	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 field	det
26	outlying	outlie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 field	amod
27	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 watch	mark
29	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 crop	det
31	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 watch	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 went	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 went	cc
34	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 went	nsubj
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dared	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 happened	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 happened	cc
38	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	39 happened	nsubj
39	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dared	conj
40	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	42 same	advmod
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 same	det
42	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 happened	xcomp
43	as	as	ADP	_	50 eve	case
44	on	on	ADP	_	50 eve	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 John	det
46	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 John	amod
47	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 John	nmod:desc
48	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 eve	nmod:poss
49	’s	's	PART	_	48 John	case
50	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 same	obl
51	:	:	PUNCT	_	54 was	punct
52	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	54 was	advmod
53	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	54 was	expl
54	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 was	parataxis
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 rumbling	det
56	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 was	nsubj
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 earthquake	cc
58	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 earthquake	det
59	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 rumbling	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 was	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 was	cc
62	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	64 was	advmod
63	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	64 was	expl
64	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	advcl
65	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	64 was	nsubj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 third	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 third	cc
68	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	70 third	advmod
69	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	70 third	det
70	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	conj
71	:	:	PUNCT	_	77 much	punct
72	but	but	CCONJ	_	77 much	cc
73	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	75 earthquakes	det
74	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	75 earthquakes	nummod
75	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	77 much	nsubj
76	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	77 much	cop
77	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	appos
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	82 violent	punct
79	very	very	ADV	_	80 much	advmod
80	much	much	ADV	_	81 more	advmod
81	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	82 violent	advmod
82	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	77 much	conj
83	than	than	ADP	_	88 year	case
84	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	88 year	nsubj
85	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	88 year	aux
86	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	88 year	cop
87	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	88 year	det
88	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 violent	obl
89	before	before	ADV	_	88 year	advmod
90	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	John St.'s next eve	the same thing and a third		again		tree rules
2	dare	past	neither				of the two brothers	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	to-infinitive	neither not said here		the outlying field			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location
4	outlie	gerund						tree rules
5	watch	to-infinitive	neither not said here	the crop				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Theme
6	go	past	Cinderlad					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	happen	past	everything				same property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	be	past	a rumbling and a earthquake		there		first property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	be	past	another		there	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	is	past	all three earthquakes				much property	tree rules
11	be		all three earthquakes not said here					tree rules
12	is	past · perfect	rumbling			than the year	before 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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