The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 38

There were three earthquakes, each worse than the other, and the last flung the boy from one wall of the barn to the other, but then everything suddenly became still as death.

Who acts: three earthquakes, last, everything · What happens: be, fling, become · To what, where: boy, one wall

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 (three earthquakes, last, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 earthquakes	nummod
4	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 worse	punct
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 worse	det
7	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 earthquakes	acl:relcl
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 other	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 worse	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flung	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 flung	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 last	det
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 flung	nsubj
15	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boy	det
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flung	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 wall	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 wall	nummod
20	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flung	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 barn	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 barn	det
23	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wall	nmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 other	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 other	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 barn	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 became	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 became	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 became	advmod
30	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 became	nsubj
31	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	32 became	advmod
32	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
33	still	still	ADV	_	32 became	advmod
34	as	as	ADP	_	35 death	case
35	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 became	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	three earthquakes		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fling	past	the last	the boy	one wall of the barn to the other			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent boy=Theme from wall=Initial_Location
3	become	past	everything			then; still	as death; suddenly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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