The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 42

Then the whole forest rang with such a blowing of horns, baying of dogs, and joyful cries of huntsmen, that the little Roe heard it and longed to join in too.

Who acts: whole forest, little Roe, huntsmen · What happens: ring, bay, hear, long, join in, blow · To what, where: joyful cries, forest, horns

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole forest, little Roe, huntsmen), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 rang	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 forest	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forest	amod
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rang	nsubj
5	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 blowing	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 blowing	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 blowing	det
9	blowing	blowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rang	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 horns	case
11	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 blowing	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 baying	punct
13	baying	bay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 rang	advcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 dogs	case
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 baying	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cries	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cries	cc
18	joyful	joyful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cries	amod
19	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rang	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 huntsmen	case
21	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cries	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 heard	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Roe	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Roe	amod
26	Roe	Roe	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 heard	nsubj
27	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rang	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heard	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 longed	cc
30	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 heard	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 join	mark
32	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 longed	xcomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	32 join	compound:prt
34	too	too	ADV	_	32 join	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	the whole forest	joyful cries of huntsmen	then	with such blowing of horns	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blowing=Theme
2	bay	gerund	the whole forest not said here			of dogs	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	the little Roe	forest			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	long	past	the little Roe not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	join in not said to happen	to-infinitive	the little Roe not said here				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	blow			horns			nom blowing «process transitive»: of=patient
7	cry		huntsmen				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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