The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 74
At noon he heard a great noise, so that he trembled with fear.
Who acts: dog · What happens: hear, tremble · To what, where: great noise
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 noon | case |
| 2 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 noise | amod |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trembled | punct |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 trembled | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 trembled | nsubj |
| 12 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 fear | case |
| 14 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trembled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | dog | a great noise | noon | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | tremble | past | dog | with fear | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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