The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 153

I’ll make a rustling among the birch leaves and a trembling among the aspens—perhaps the boy will grow quiet when he hears it.’

Who acts: I, birch, boy · What happens: make, leave, grow, hear · To what, where: rustling, aspens, birch

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, birch, boy), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rustling	det
5	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	among	among	ADP	_	9 leaves	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 birch	det
8	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaves	nsubj
9	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 trembling	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 trembling	det
12	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaves	conj
13	among	among	ADP	_	15 aspens	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 aspens	det
15	aspens	aspen	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 leaves	obl
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 grow	punct
17	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	21 grow	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grow	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 grow	aux
21	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	conj
22	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grow	xcomp
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 hears	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hears	nsubj
25	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 grow	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hears	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	future	I	a rustling			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rustling=Product
2	leave	present	the birch		the aspens		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent among aspen=Location
3	grow	future	the boy			perhaps, quiet property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	present	boy	birch			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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