The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 42
With that the noises grew fainter and fainter, till at last they ceased altogether.
Who acts: noises, preparations · What happens: grow, cease · To what, where: last
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 (noises, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 grew | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 noises | det |
| 4 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fainter | faint | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fainter | cc |
| 8 | fainter | faint | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 fainter | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ceased | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 ceased | mark |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ceased | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ceased | nsubj |
| 14 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 15 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 14 ceased | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the noises | with that; faint property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cease | past | preparations = preparation | last | altogether property | 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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