The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 155
Ere long came the West Wind, roaring so loud that the walls creaked.
Who acts: West Wind, walls · What happens: come, roar, creak
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (West Wind, walls), 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 | Ere | ere | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Wind | det |
| 5 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wind | compound |
| 6 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 roaring | punct |
| 8 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 loud | advmod |
| 10 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 roaring | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 creaked | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 walls | det |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 creaked | nsubj |
| 14 | creaked | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 loud | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the West Wind | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roar | gerund | the West Wind not said here | loud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | creak | past | the walls | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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