The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 5

So when evening came he went to the barn, and lay down to sleep, but when night was drawing near there was such a rumbling and such an earthquake that the walls and roof shook again, and the lad jumped up and took to his heels as fast as he could, and never even looked back, and the barn remained empty that year just as it had been for the last two.

Who acts: evening, man, rumbling, walls, lad, barn · What happens: come, go, lay down, sleep, draw, be · To what, where: barn, earthquake

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 (evening, man, rumbling, walls), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	4 came	parataxis
7	to	to	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lay	cc
12	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 lay	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sleep	mark
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lay	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 drawing	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 drawing	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 drawing	advmod
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drawing	obl:unmarked
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 drawing	aux
21	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
22	near	near	ADP	_	24 was	mark
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 drawing	advcl
25	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 rumbling	det:predet
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 rumbling	det
27	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 was	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 earthquake	cc
29	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	31 earthquake	det:predet
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 earthquake	det
31	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rumbling	conj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 shook	obj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 walls	det
34	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 shook	nsubj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 roof	cc
36	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 walls	conj
37	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 earthquake	acl:relcl
38	again	again	ADV	_	37 shook	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 jumped	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 jumped	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 lad	det
42	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 jumped	nsubj
43	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
44	up	up	ADP	_	43 jumped	compound:prt
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 took	cc
46	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 jumped	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 heels	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 heels	nmod:poss
49	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 took	obl
50	as	as	ADV	_	51 fast	advmod
51	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 took	advmod
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	54 could	mark
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 could	nsubj
54	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 fast	advcl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 looked	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 looked	cc
57	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	59 looked	advmod
58	even	even	ADV	_	59 looked	advmod
59	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
60	back	back	ADV	_	59 looked	advmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 remained	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 remained	cc
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 barn	det
64	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 remained	nsubj
65	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
66	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 year	amod
67	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	68 year	det
68	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 remained	obl:unmarked
69	just	just	ADV	_	77 two	advmod
70	as	as	ADP	_	77 two	case
71	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 two	nsubj
72	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	77 two	aux
73	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	77 two	cop
74	for	for	ADP	_	77 two	case
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 two	det
76	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	77 two	amod
77	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	65 remained	obl
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	evening					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	man		the barn			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to barn=Initial_Location
3	lay down	infinitive	evening not said here				down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sleep	to-infinitive	evening not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	draw	past · progressive	evening not said here			night		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	be	past	such rumbling and such earthquake		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	shake	past	the walls and roof	such earthquake		again		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent that=Patient
8	jump up	past	the lad					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	take	past	the lad not said here				to man's heels result; fast property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result
10	not look back	past	evening not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
11	remain	past	the barn			year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	is	past · perfect	barn				as the last two	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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