The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 73

At last the noise grew so loud that he lost patience, and he stooped to pick up a stone to hurl into the midst of the clamour, when suddenly his arm seemed to stiffen, and the next moment he was a stone himself!

Who acts: last noise, noise, arm, next moment · What happens: grow, lose, stoop, pick up, hurl, seem · To what, where: patience, stone, midst

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last noise, noise, arm, next moment), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 noise	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 noise	det
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 loud	advmod
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grew	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 lost	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	nsubj
10	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loud	advcl
11	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stooped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stooped	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stooped	nsubj
15	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 pick	mark
17	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stooped	xcomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 pick	compound:prt
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stone	det
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pick	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 hurl	mark
22	hurl	hurl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pick	advcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 midst	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 midst	det
25	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hurl	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 clamour	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 clamour	det
28	clamour	clamour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 midst	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 seemed	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 seemed	advmod
31	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	34 seemed	advmod
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 arm	nmod:poss
33	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seemed	nsubj
34	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 midst	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 stiffen	mark
36	stiffen	stiffen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 seemed	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 stone	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 stone	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 moment	det
40	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 moment	amod
41	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 stone	nsubj
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 stone	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 stone	cop
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 stone	det
45	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	obl
46	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 stone	nmod
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the last noise			loud property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	past	noise	patience			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality
3	stoop	past	noise				tree rules
4	pick up	to-infinitive	noise not said here	a stone			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic
5	hurl	to-infinitive	noise not said here		the midst of the clamour		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into midst=Destination
6	seem	past	noise's arm			suddenly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	stiffen	to-infinitive	noise's arm not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	is a	past	the next moment	a stone		noise nmod	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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