The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 41

The noise and thundering grew louder and louder, until the floor began to open, whereupon Hadvor made them take the caldron of pitch and pour plenty of it into the opening.

Who acts: noise, floor, Hadvor, preparations · What happens: grow, begin, open, make, take, pour · To what, where: preparations, caldron, plenty, opening

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: who acts (noise, floor, Hadvor, preparations), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 noise	det
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 thundering	cc
4	thundering	thundering	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noise	conj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grew	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 louder	cc
8	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 louder	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 began	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 open	mark
15	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
17	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	19 made	advmod
18	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 made	nsubj
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 began	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	obj
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 made	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 caldron	det
23	caldron	caldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 pitch	case
25	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caldron	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pour	cc
27	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 take	conj
28	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pour	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 plenty	nmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 opening	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 opening	det
33	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pour	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the noise and thundering			loud property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	the floor				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	open	to-infinitive	the floor not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	past	Hadvor	preparations = preparation		whereupon property	tree rules
5	take	infinitive	preparations = preparation not said here	the caldron of pitch			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caldron=Theme
6	pour	infinitive	preparations = preparation not said here	plenty of noise	the opening		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme into opening=Destination

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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