The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 35

There was silence for a moment; then a hyaena took a stone, and flung it with all his force against the lion’s skin.

Who acts: silence, hyaena · What happens: be, take, fling · To what, where: stone

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silence, hyaena), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 moment	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 took	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hyaena	det
10	hyaena	hyaena	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stone	det
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flung	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flung	cc
16	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 flung	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 force	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 force	det:predet
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 force	nmod:poss
21	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flung	obl
22	against	against	ADP	_	26 skin	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lion	det
24	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 skin	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 lion	case
26	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 force	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	silence		there	moment		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	a hyaena	a stone		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3	fling	past	a hyaena not said here	stone			with silence's force against the lion's skin	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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