The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 28
In a few minutes a rushing sound was heard in the waters, and a wave swept the spinning-wheel from the bank.
Who acts: wave · What happens: rush, hear, sweep · To what, where: rushing sound, waters, spinning wheel, bank
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (wave), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sound | det |
| 6 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sound | amod |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux:pass |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 waters | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 waters | det |
| 12 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 swept | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wave | det |
| 16 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swept | nsubj |
| 17 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wheel | det |
| 19 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wheel | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 spinning | punct |
| 21 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swept | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 bank | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bank | det |
| 24 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swept | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | a rushing sound | the waters | minute | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | sweep | past | a wave | the spinning wheel | the bank | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme from bank=Trajectory |
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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