The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 59
‘Stop!’ he suddenly cried, as the air was filled with a rushing noise, and the dragon came dashing past.
Who acts: Stan, dragon · What happens: stop, cry, fill, rush, come, dash · To what, where: air
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan, dragon), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 cried | advmod |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 filled | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 filled | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 filled | aux:pass |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cried | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 noise | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 noise | det |
| 16 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 noise | amod |
| 17 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 came | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dragon | det |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | conj |
| 23 | dashing | dash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 came | advcl |
| 24 | past | past | ADV | _ | 23 dashing | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Stan | suddenly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | the air | with a rushing noise | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with noise=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | come | past | the dragon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | dash | gerund | the dragon not said here | past property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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 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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