The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 7
When he reached the meat-market he found the whole place in turmoil, and a great noise of angry voices and barking of dogs.
Who acts: Martin, angry voices · What happens: reach, find, noise · To what, where: meat market, whole place, turmoil
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, angry voices), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 noise | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 market | det |
| 5 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 market | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 meat | punct |
| 7 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 market | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 place | amod |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 turmoil | case |
| 14 | turmoil | turmoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 place | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 noise | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 noise | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 noise | amod |
| 19 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 voices | case |
| 21 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 voices | amod |
| 22 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 noise | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 barking | cc |
| 24 | barking | barking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 voices | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 dogs | case |
| 26 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 barking | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 noise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Martin | the meat market | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent market=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Martin | the whole place | turmoil | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | |||
| 3 | noise | angry voices and barking of dogs | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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