The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 137
Whir-r-r! all the wheels ran down and then the music ceased.
Who acts: Whir, music · What happens: run down, cease
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whir, music), 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 | Whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whir | punct |
| 3 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Whir | conj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 r | punct |
| 5 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Whir | conj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whir | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 wheels | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wheels | det |
| 9 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 ran | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ceased | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 ceased | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 music | det |
| 15 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ceased | nsubj |
| 16 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | past | Whir and r and r | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cease | past | the music | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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