The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 8

He went to the barn and lay down to sleep, as his brother had done; but when night was drawing near there was a great rumbling, and then an earthquake, which was even worse than that on the former St. John’s night, and when the youth heard it he was terrified, and went off, running as if for a wager.

Who acts: man, brother, great rumbling, earthquake, youth · What happens: go, lay down, sleep, do, draw, be · To what, where: barn · 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 (man, brother, great rumbling, earthquake), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 barn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 barn	det
5	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lay	cc
7	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	conj
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sleep	mark
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lay	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 done	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 done	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brother	nmod:poss
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 done	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 sleep	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 drawing	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 drawing	advmod
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drawing	obl:unmarked
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drawing	aux
22	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	conj
23	near	near	ADP	_	25 was	mark
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drawing	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 rumbling	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rumbling	amod
28	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 earthquake	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 earthquake	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 earthquake	advmod
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 earthquake	det
33	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drawing	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 worse	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 worse	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 worse	cop
37	even	even	ADV	_	38 worse	advmod
38	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 earthquake	acl:relcl
39	than	than	ADP	_	40 that	case
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 worse	obl
41	on	on	ADP	_	47 night	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 John	det
43	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 John	amod
44	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 John	nmod:desc
45	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 night	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 John	case
47	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 worse	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 went	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 went	cc
50	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	53 heard	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 youth	det
52	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 heard	nsubj
53	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 went	advcl
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 heard	obj
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 terrified	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 terrified	cop
57	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 heard	ccomp
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 went	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 went	cc
60	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
61	off	off	ADP	_	60 went	compound:prt
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 running	punct
63	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	60 went	advcl
64	as	as	ADP	_	68 wager	case
65	if	if	SCONJ	_	68 wager	mark
66	for	for	ADP	_	68 wager	case
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 wager	det
68	wager	wager	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 running	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	man		the barn			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to barn=Initial_Location
2	lay down	infinitive	man not said here				down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	to-infinitive	man not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	past · perfect	man's brother					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	draw	past · progressive	man not said here			night		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	be	past	a great rumbling		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	a earthquake			night	than a earthquake; bad property	tree rules
8	hear	past	the youth	barn				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
9	is	past	man				terrified property	tree rules
10	go off	past						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
11	run	gerund					as a wager	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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