The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 71

‘Yes; now I hear such a dreadful crackling and crashing in the forest on every side that I think I shall be really afraid,’ said the youth.

Who acts: I, youth · What happens: hear, crash, think, be, say · To what, where: dreadful crackling, forest, side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (I, youth), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 hear	discourse
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 hear	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
6	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 crackling	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 crackling	det
9	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 crackling	amod
10	crackling	crackling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 crashing	cc
12	crashing	crash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 hear	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crashing	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 side	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 side	det
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 forest	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 think	obj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 think	nsubj
21	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 side	acl:relcl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 afraid	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 afraid	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 afraid	cop
25	really	really	ADV	_	26 afraid	advmod
26	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 think	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 afraid	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 afraid	punct
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 afraid	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 youth	det
31	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	nsubj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	I	such dreadful crackling		now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crackling=Stimulus
2	crash	gerund	I not said here		the forest on every side			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
3	think speech: other	present	I	every side				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
4	is	shall	I				afraid property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	the youth					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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