The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 41

Then the storm wind howled louder, the earth trembled more violently, and the night grew darker, than the first time, and the Welwa of the silver wood came rushing on with seven times the speed of the other.

Who acts: storm wind, earth, night, Welwa · What happens: howl, tremble, grow, come, rush on

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm wind, earth, night, Welwa), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 howled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wind	compound
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 howled	nsubj
5	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	louder	loud	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 howled	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trembled	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 earth	det
9	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trembled	nsubj
10	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 howled	conj
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 violently	advmod
12	violently	violently	ADV	_	10 trembled	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grew	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	nsubj
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 howled	conj
18	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 grew	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 time	punct
20	than	than	ADP	_	23 time	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 came	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Welwa	det
27	Welwa	Welwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 came	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 wood	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wood	det
30	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wood	compound
31	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Welwa	nmod
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 howled	conj
33	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 came	xcomp
34	on	on	ADP	_	33 rushing	compound:prt
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 times	case
36	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 times	nummod
37	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rushing	obl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 speed	det
39	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 times	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 other	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 other	det
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 speed	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 howled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	howl	past	the storm wind	then	loud property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tremble	past	the earth		violently property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	the night	time	dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	the Welwa of the silver wood			tree rules
5	rush on	gerund	the Welwa of the silver wood not said here	time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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