The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 55

At last, however, the noises and shaking stopped, and they began to come to themselves again.

Who acts: noises · What happens: stop, begin, come · To what, where: last, noises

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 (noises), 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 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stopped	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	10 stopped	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 noises	det
7	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stopped	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shaking	cc
9	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 noises	conj
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stopped	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 themselves	case
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 come	obl
19	again	again	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the noises and shaking		last		however property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	begin	past	noises = noise					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	come	to-infinitive	noises = noise not said here	noises = noise		again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to themselves=Initial_Location

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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