The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 11
Suddenly she heard a faint sound: it was King Frost springing from tree to tree, and cracking his fingers as he went.
Who acts: girl, sound, King Frost, frost · What happens: hear, be, spring, crack, go · To what, where: faint sound, King Frost, tree, fingers
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, sound, King Frost, frost), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 5 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sound | amod |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Frost | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 Frost | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Frost | cop |
| 10 | King | king | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Frost | amod |
| 11 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | conj |
| 12 | springing | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Frost | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 springing | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 springing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cracking | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cracking | cc |
| 19 | cracking | crack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cracking | obj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 went | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cracking | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | girl | a faint sound | suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | sound | King Frost | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spring | gerund | King Frost not said here | tree | to tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tree=Destination | |||
| 4 | crack | gerund | girl not said here | frost's fingers | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | frost | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/37/11/