The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 104

At the sound of his roar the very trees quivered and his claws were so large that every one of them looked like a cutlass.

Who acts: trees, claws, one, sound · What happens: quiver, be, look, roar

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, claws, one, sound), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 sound	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sound	det
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 quivered	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 roar	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 roar	nmod:poss
6	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sound	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 trees	advmod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 quivered	nsubj
10	quivered	quiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 large	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 claws	nmod:poss
13	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 large	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 large	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 large	advmod
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 quivered	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 looked	mark
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 one	nmod
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 large	advcl
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 cutlass	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cutlass	det
25	cutlass	cutlass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 quivered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	quiver	past	the trees	at the sound of sound's roar	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at sound=Stimulus
2	is	past	sound's claws	large property	tree rules
3	look	past	every one of claws	like a cutlass	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	roar		sound		nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=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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