The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 46

So he went up into the turret and began to search about and tap upon the walls, and all at once he came upon a place that sounded hollow.

Who acts: noise, all, place · What happens: go up, begin, search, come, sound · To what, where: turret, tap, place

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, all, place), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 turret	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 turret	det
7	turret	turret	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 search	mark
11	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	about	about	ADV	_	14 tap	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tap	cc
14	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 search	obj
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 walls	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 walls	det
17	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 search	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 came	nsubj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 once	case
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 all	nmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 place	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 place	det
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 sounded	nsubj
29	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 place	acl:relcl
30	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sounded	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go up	past	noise		the turret		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	begin	past	noise not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	search	to-infinitive	noise not said here	tap		upon the walls	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tap=Location
4	come	past	all		a place		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon place=Location
5	sound	past	a place			hollow property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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