The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 97
There was the noise of a struggle, which reached the emperor’s ears.
Who acts: noise, struggle · What happens: be, reach, noise · To what, where: ears
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, struggle), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 noise | det |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 struggle | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 struggle | det |
| 7 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noise | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 struggle | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 emperor | det |
| 12 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ears | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 emperor | case |
| 14 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reached | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the noise of a struggle | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | a struggle | the emperor's ears | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | noise | a struggle | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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