The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 54

This was followed by such noises and crashings down in the earth that all the King’s Palace shook, so that no one expected anything else than to see every bit of it shaken to pieces.

Who acts: such noises, Palace · What happens: follow, shake, expect, see · To what, where: This, earth, one, bit, pieces

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such noises, Palace), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 followed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 followed	aux:pass
3	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 noises	case
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 noises	amod
6	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 followed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crashings	cc
8	crashings	crashing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 noises	conj
9	down	down	ADV	_	3 followed	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 followed	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 shook	obj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 Palace	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Palace	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 King	case
18	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 shook	nsubj
19	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 earth	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 anything	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	_	26 anything	case
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 anything	nmod:poss
25	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 one	acl
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 followed	parataxis
27	else	else	ADV	_	26 anything	advmod
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	30 see	mark
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 anything	acl
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 bit	det
32	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bit	nmod
35	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 bit	acl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 pieces	case
37	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 shaken	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past · passive	such noises and crashings	This	the earth	down property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in earth=Trajectory
2	shake	past	the King's Palace	the earth			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent that=Patient
3	expect	participle		no one not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	see	to-infinitive	such noises and crashings not said here	every bit of Palace			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus
5	shake	participle		every bit of Palace not said here	pieces		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent to piece=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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