The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 84
But just at this moment the sun was darkened, the earth trembled, and Désiré heard a voice crying:
Who acts: earth, Désiré, voice · What happens: darken, tremble, hear, cry · To what, where: sun, voice
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, Désiré, voice), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 darkened | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 darkened | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 darkened | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 darkened | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 darkened | aux:pass |
| 9 | darkened | darken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trembled | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trembled | nsubj |
| 13 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 darkened | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 heard | cc |
| 16 | Désiré | Désiré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 trembled | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | obj |
| 20 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 heard | xcomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 darkened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | darken | past · passive | the sun | moment | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tremble | past | the earth | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | Désiré | a voice | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | a voice not said here | 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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