The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 23
Suddenly a loud noise struck on his ear, and he felt the earth tremble beneath his feet.
Who acts: loud noise · What happens: strike, feel · To what, where: loud noise, ear, earth tremble, feet
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loud noise), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 noise | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 noise | det |
| 3 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 noise | amod |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 noise | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ear | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ear | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 felt | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tremble | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tremble | compound |
| 15 | tremble | tremble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 felt | obj |
| 16 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 18 feet | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 felt | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | participle | a loud noise not said here | stranger's ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ear=Location | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | a loud noise | the earth tremble | stranger's feet | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tremble=Theme beneath 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.
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