The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 107

The trees rustled in the darkness, the owls hooted, and she began to be very much frightened.

Who acts: trees, owls, tree · What happens: rustle, hoot, begin, be · To what, where: darkness

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (trees, owls, tree), 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 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rustled	nsubj
3	rustled	rustle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 darkness	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 darkness	det
6	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rustled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hooted	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 owls	det
9	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hooted	nsubj
10	hooted	hoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rustled	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rustled	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	19 frightened	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 frightened	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 frightened	advmod
19	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 began	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rustled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	rustle	past	the trees	the darkness		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Location
2	hoot	past	the owls			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	tree			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is	to-infinitive	tree not said here		frightened property	tree rules

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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