The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 37

It was first a slow, caressing sound, then more and more lively and urgent, and so sonorous and piercing that it penetrated as far as the farthest alleys and retreats of the town.

Who acts: horizon · What happens: be, caress, pierce, penetrate · To what, where: sound

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horizon), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slow	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	cop
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 slow	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 slow	det
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 caressing	punct
7	caressing	caress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 slow	advcl
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caressing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lively	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 lively	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 lively	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lively	cc
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 lively	advmod
14	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slow	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 urgent	cc
16	urgent	urgent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lively	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sonorous	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sonorous	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 sonorous	advmod
20	sonorous	sonorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slow	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 piercing	cc
22	piercing	pierce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 sonorous	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 penetrated	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 penetrated	nsubj
25	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sonorous	advcl
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 far	advmod
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 penetrated	advmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 alleys	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 alleys	det
30	farthest	far	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 alleys	amod
31	alleys	alley	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 far	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 retreats	cc
33	retreats	retreat	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 alleys	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 town	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 town	det
36	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 retreats	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	horizon			first, slow property	tree rules
2	caress	gerund	horizon not said here	sound			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Experiencer
3	be		horizon not said here		then		tree rules
4	be		horizon not said here				tree rules
5	pierce	gerund	horizon not said here				vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	penetrate	past	horizon			far property	vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: 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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