The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 85

The hangings were all of bats’ wings, and from the ceiling hung twelve cats, who filled the hall with their ear piercing yells.

Who acts: hangings, twelve cats, ear piercing · What happens: hang, fill, yell · To what, where: twelve cats, ceiling, hall

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hangings, twelve cats, ear piercing), 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 hangings	det
2	hangings	hanging	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hung	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 all	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 hangings	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 wings	case
6	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wings	nmod:poss
7	’	's	PART	_	6 bats	case
8	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 all	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hung	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hung	cc
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 ceiling	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ceiling	det
13	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hung	obl
14	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 cats	nummod
16	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hung	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 filled	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 filled	nsubj
19	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cats	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hall	det
21	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 filled	obj
22	with	with	SCONJ	_	26 yells	mark
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 piercing	nmod:poss
24	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 piercing	compound
25	piercing	piercing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 yells	nsubj
26	yells	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 filled	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hang	past	the hangings	twelve cats	the ceiling	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
2	fill	past	twelve cats	the hall		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hall=Patient
3	yell speech: express	present	hall's ear piercing			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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