The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 21
On the stroke of midnight the cock crew, and in an instant lights, table, cards, and people all had vanished, and Hans was left alone.
Who acts: people · What happens: vanish, leave, stroke · To what, where: cock crew, Hans, midnight
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 stroke | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stroke | det |
| 3 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 midnight | case |
| 5 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stroke | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crew | det |
| 7 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crew | compound |
| 8 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stroke | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lights | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lights | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 lights | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lights | det |
| 13 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lights | amod |
| 14 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crew | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 table | punct |
| 16 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crew | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cards | punct |
| 18 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crew | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 vanished | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 vanished | cc |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 vanished | nsubj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 vanished | advmod |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 vanished | aux |
| 24 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 crew | acl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 left | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 left | cc |
| 27 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 left | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 left | aux:pass |
| 29 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 vanished | conj |
| 30 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 left | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stroke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past · perfect | people | the cock crew and a instant lights and table and cards not said here | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | Hans | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stroke | midnight | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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