The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 42

The shop was full of people, and his chin had just been covered with a lather of soap, when, suddenly starting up from the chair, he called out in a loud voice:

Who acts: shop, barber · What happens: be, cover, start up, call out · To what, where: chin, chair, loud voice

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shop, barber), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shop	det
2	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 covered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 covered	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 chin	nmod:poss
10	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covered	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 covered	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 covered	advmod
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 covered	aux:pass
14	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 full	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 lather	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lather	det
17	lather	lather	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covered	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 soap	case
19	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lather	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 starting	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 starting	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 starting	punct
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	24 starting	advmod
24	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 lather	acl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 starting	compound:prt
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 chair	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 chair	det
28	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 starting	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 called	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 called	nsubj
31	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 called	compound:prt
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 voice	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 voice	det
35	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 voice	amod
36	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 called	obl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the shop			of people; full property	tree rules
2	cover	past · perfect · passive		barber's chin		with a lather of soap	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with lather=Theme
3	start up	gerund			the chair	suddenly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	call out speech: assert	past	barber		a loud voice		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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