The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 39
He was still wondering why the pavilions were there, when a noise was heard among the trees, as if the wind had suddenly got up, and on all sides beautiful maidens stepped from the trees into the bright light of the moon.
Who acts: noise, pavilions, wind, beautiful maidens · What happens: wonder, be, hear, get up, step, light · To what, where: noise, sides, moon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (noise, pavilions, wind, beautiful maidens), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wondering | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wondering | aux |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 wondering | advmod |
| 4 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 there | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pavilions | det |
| 7 | pavilions | pavilion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 there | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 there | cop |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wondering | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 heard | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 noise | det |
| 13 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 heard | aux:pass |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wondering | parataxis |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 trees | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 trees | det |
| 18 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heard | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 got | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 got | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wind | det |
| 23 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 got | aux |
| 25 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 26 got | advmod |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 heard | conj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 got | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stepped | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 stepped | cc |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 sides | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 sides | det |
| 32 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 stepped | obl |
| 33 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 maidens | amod |
| 34 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 stepped | nsubj |
| 35 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 heard | conj |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 trees | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 trees | det |
| 38 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 stepped | obl |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 light | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 light | det |
| 41 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 light | amod |
| 42 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stepped | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 moon | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 moon | det |
| 45 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 light | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wondering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | noise | still | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the pavilions | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | a noise | among the trees | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | get up a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | the wind | suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | step | past | beautiful maidens | all sides | from the trees; into the bright light of the moon | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into light=Destination | |||
| 6 | light | the moon | nom light «phenomenon 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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