The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 5
Out of the breeze came a storm wind, and the storm wind swelled and swelled till everything around was blotted out in darkness, and darkness covered them as with a thick cloak, while the earth swayed and shook under their feet.
Who acts: storm wind, darkness, earth · What happens: come, swell, blot out, cover, sway, shake · To what, where: breeze, darkness, sides, feet
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, darkness, earth), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 4 breeze | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 breeze | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 breeze | det |
| 4 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 7 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wind | compound |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swelled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swelled | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wind | det |
| 12 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wind | compound |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swelled | nsubj |
| 14 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swelled | cc |
| 16 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 swelled | conj |
| 17 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 everything | case |
| 18 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 swelled | obl |
| 19 | around | around | ADP | _ | 21 blotted | mark |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 blotted | aux:pass |
| 21 | blotted | blot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 swelled | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 blotted | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 darkness | case |
| 24 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blotted | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 covered | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 covered | cc |
| 27 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 covered | nsubj |
| 28 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 covered | obj |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 covered | advmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 cloak | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 cloak | det |
| 33 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 cloak | amod |
| 34 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 covered | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 swayed | punct |
| 36 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 39 swayed | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 earth | det |
| 38 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 swayed | nsubj |
| 39 | swayed | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 shook | cc |
| 41 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 swayed | conj |
| 42 | under | under | ADP | _ | 44 feet | case |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 feet | nmod:poss |
| 44 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 shook | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a storm wind | the breeze | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out breeze=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | swell | past | the storm wind | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | swell | past | the storm wind not said here | till everything | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | blot out | past · passive | the storm wind not said here | darkness | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 5 | cover | past | darkness | sides = side | with a thick cloak | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with cloak=Theme | |||
| 6 | sway | past | the earth | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | shake | past | the earth not said here | sides's feet | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/20/5/