The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 42
The noise he made brought his guards to his aid, and as soon as he revived they asked him what was the matter.
Who acts: noise, guards · What happens: make, bring, revive, ask, be · To what, where: noise, guards, aid, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, guards), 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 noise | det |
| 2 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 noise | acl:relcl |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 guards | nmod:poss |
| 7 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 aid | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 aid | nmod:poss |
| 10 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asked | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 soon | advmod |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 asked | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 revived | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 revived | nsubj |
| 17 | revived | revive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 soon | advcl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | nsubj |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | iobj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 matter | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 matter | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 matter | det |
| 24 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | noise | the noise not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the noise | noise's guards | noise's aid | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=Theme to aid=Destination | |||
| 3 | revive | past | noise | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | guards = guard | noise | soon property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules |
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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