The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 87

At midnight the wind began to rise, and a rustling sound was heard at the foot of the tree.

Who acts: wind · What happens: begin, rise, hear · To what, where: rustling sound, foot

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (wind), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 rise	mark
7	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sound	det
11	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sound	compound
12	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	aux:pass
14	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 began	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 foot	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 foot	det
17	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tree	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 foot	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	the wind			midnight	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	rise	to-infinitive	the wind not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past · passive		a rustling sound	the foot of the tree		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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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