The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 98
Then the smith heard in the church a soft music, which grew louder and louder, and soon filled the whole building.
Who acts: smith, soft music · What happens: hear, grow, fill · To what, where: church, whole building
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, soft music), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 smith | det |
| 3 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 music | det |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 music | amod |
| 10 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 church | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 music | acl:relcl |
| 14 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 grew | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 louder | cc |
| 16 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 louder | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 filled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 filled | cc |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 filled | advmod |
| 20 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 building | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 building | amod |
| 23 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 filled | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | participle | the smith | the church | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | grow | past | a soft music | loud property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill | past | the smith not said here | the whole building | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent building=Patient |
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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