The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 57
The wolves howled, the ravens screamed, the sky seemed on fire.
Who acts: wolves, ravens, sky · What happens: howl, scream, seem · To what, where: fire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolves, ravens, sky), 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 wolves | det |
| 2 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 howled | nsubj |
| 3 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 screamed | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ravens | det |
| 6 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 screamed | nsubj |
| 7 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 howled | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sky | det |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 screamed | ccomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 howled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | past | the wolves | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | the ravens | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | the sky | fire | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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