The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 37

Everything trembled and shook; the animals sprang up and dashed themselves in terror against the wall; the beams swayed as if they would be torn from their foundations, it seemed as if the stairs were tumbling down, and then the roof fell in with a crash.

Who acts: Everything, animals, beams, it, stairs, roof · What happens: tremble, shake, sprang up, dash, sway, tear · To what, where: animals, terror, beams

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, animals, beams, it), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 trembled	nsubj
2	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shook	cc
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 trembled	conj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 sprang	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animals	det
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sprang	nsubj
8	sprang	sprang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 trembled	parataxis
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 sprang	compound:prt
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dashed	cc
11	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sprang	conj
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 dashed	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 terror	case
14	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dashed	obl
15	against	against	ADP	_	17 wall	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wall	det
17	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 terror	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 swayed	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beams	det
20	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 swayed	nsubj
21	swayed	sway	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 trembled	parataxis
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 torn	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 torn	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 torn	nsubj:pass
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 torn	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 torn	aux:pass
27	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 swayed	advcl
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 foundations	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 foundations	nmod:poss
30	foundations	foundation	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 torn	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seemed	punct
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seemed	nsubj
33	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 swayed	conj
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 tumbling	mark
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 tumbling	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 stairs	det
37	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 tumbling	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 tumbling	aux
39	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 seemed	xcomp
40	down	down	ADV	_	39 tumbling	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 fell	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 fell	cc
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 fell	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 roof	det
45	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fell	nsubj
46	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 swayed	conj
47	in	in	ADV	_	46 fell	advmod
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 crash	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 crash	det
50	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fell	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 trembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tremble	past	Everything					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shake	past	Everything not said here					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	sprang up	present	the animals					tree rules
4	dash	past	the animals not said here	animals = animal	terror against the wall			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in terror=Trajectory
5	sway	past	the beams					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tear	would · passive		beams = beam			from beams's foundations	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from foundation=Co-Patient
7	seem	past	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
8	tumble down a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	the stairs				down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9	fall in	past	the roof			then	with a crash	vn occur-48.3 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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