The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 127
A thick cloud suddenly filled the hall, so that for a moment all was dark.
Who acts: thick cloud · What happens: fill, be · To what, where: hall
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thick cloud), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloud | det |
| 2 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cloud | amod |
| 3 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 filled | advmod |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dark | punct |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 dark | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dark | obl |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 dark | advmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dark | cop |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 filled | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | a thick cloud | the hall | suddenly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hall=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | a thick cloud not said here | moment | all, dark property | tree rules |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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