The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 106
It howled and roared around the king’s palace, and in the midst of it there came a loud knock on the door of the hall where the youngest prince was.
Who acts: storm · What happens: howl, roar, come · To what, where: palace, loud knock, midst
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 howled | nsubj |
| 2 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 roared | cc |
| 4 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 howled | conj |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 midst | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 midst | det |
| 14 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 midst | nmod |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 came | advmod |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 howled | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 knock | det |
| 20 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 knock | amod |
| 21 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 door | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knock | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hall | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hall | det |
| 27 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 door | nmod |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 was | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 prince | det |
| 30 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 prince | amod |
| 31 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 was | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 hall | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 howled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | past | storm | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | roar | past | storm not said here | the king's palace | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around palace=Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | storm not said here | a loud knock | the midst of storm; there | on the door of the hall | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knock=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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