The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 80
There was such a hurrying and draught that all the bells jingled so much that one could not hear oneself speak.
Who acts: hurrying, bells, one, oneself · What happens: be, jingle, not hear, speak · To what, where: hurrying · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hurrying, bells, one, oneself), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 hurrying | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hurrying | det |
| 5 | hurrying | hurrying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 draught | cc |
| 7 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurrying | conj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 jingled | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 bells | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bells | det |
| 11 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 jingled | nsubj |
| 12 | jingled | jingle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurrying | acl:relcl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 jingled | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 hear | mark |
| 16 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hear | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hear | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 hear | advmod |
| 19 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 much | advcl |
| 20 | oneself | oneself | PRON | PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 speak | nsubj |
| 21 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hear | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | such hurrying and draught | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jingle | past | all bells | such hurrying and draught | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not hear | could | one | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | infinitive | oneself | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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