The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 14
Then of a sudden the cock crew, and all the evil spirits vanished.
Who acts: evil spirits · What happens: vanish
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil spirits), 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 sudden | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sudden | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sudden | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crew | det |
| 6 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crew | compound |
| 7 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sudden | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 vanished | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 vanished | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 spirits | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spirits | det |
| 12 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spirits | amod |
| 13 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 vanished | nsubj |
| 14 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sudden | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sudden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | all evil spirits | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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