The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 57
In a moment a little gurgling noise was heard, and out came a stream of blood, running fast.
Who acts: stream · What happens: gurgle, hear, come, run · To what, where: little gurgling noise
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:2362): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 noise | amod |
| 6 | gurgling | gurgle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 noise | amod |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux:pass |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stream | det |
| 15 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 blood | case |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stream | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 running | punct |
| 19 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 came | advcl |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 running | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gurgle | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | a little gurgling noise | moment | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a stream of blood | out property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | gerund | a stream of blood not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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