The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 14
She stamped three times on the ground, and the earth trembled, and both the church and the monk began to shake.
Who acts: woman, earth, church · What happens: stamp, tremble, begin, shake · To what, where: ground
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (woman, earth, church), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stamped | nsubj |
| 2 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 times | nummod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stamped | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stamped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trembled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 trembled | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trembled | nsubj |
| 12 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stamped | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 church | det |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 church | det |
| 17 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 began | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 monk | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 monk | det |
| 20 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 church | conj |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 trembled | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 shake | mark |
| 23 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stamped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | past | woman | the ground | time | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | tremble | past | the earth | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | both church and the monk | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | shake | to-infinitive | both church and the monk not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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 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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