The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 96
Lina turned as she heard the noise made by the breaking of the branch.
Who acts: Lina · What happens: turn, hear, make · To what, where: noise
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lina), 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 | Lina | Lina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 heard | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 noise | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 breaking | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 breaking | det |
| 11 | breaking | breaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 branch | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 branch | det |
| 14 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 breaking | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Lina | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | Lina | the noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | the noise not said here | by the breaking of the branch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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