The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 39
One night, not long after, a loud noise and rumbling was heard under the castle.
What happens: hear · To what, where: loud noise, castle
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 after | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 after | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 after | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADV | _ | 2 night | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 noise | det |
| 9 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 noise | amod |
| 10 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rumbling | cc |
| 12 | rumbling | rumbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 noise | conj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | aux:pass |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | a loud noise and rumbling | the castle | night | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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