The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 115
She had not time to say more, when the whole castle shook, and a rustling, hissing, groaning sound was heard.
Who acts: girl, whole castle · What happens: have, say, shake, hiss, groan, hear · To what, where: rustling, more, sound · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, whole castle), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 time | advmod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 say | mark |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 say | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shook | punct |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 shook | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 castle | amod |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shook | nsubj |
| 13 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 more | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rustling | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rustling | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rustling | det |
| 17 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hissing | punct |
| 19 | hissing | hiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 had | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 groaning | punct |
| 21 | groaning | groan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 hissing | conj |
| 22 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 heard | aux:pass |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 groaning | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | girl | a rustling | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | girl not said here | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 3 | shake | past | the whole castle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | hiss | gerund | girl not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | groan | gerund | girl not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | hear | past · passive | sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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