The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 25
Oh! what a noise and a whirr rose afresh among the serpents.
Who acts: whirr · What happens: rise · To what, where: serpents
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whirr), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 noise | det |
| 5 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rose | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 whirr | det |
| 8 | whirr | whirr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | nsubj |
| 9 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | conj |
| 10 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rose | xcomp |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 serpents | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 serpents | det |
| 13 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rose | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | a whirr | the serpents | afresh property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among serpent=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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