The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 138
And the Serpent King closed his eyes, turned round on his other side, and began to snore so loud that the windows rattled.
Who acts: Serpent King, windows · What happens: close, turn round, begin, snore, rattle · To what, where: eyes, other side
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 (Serpent King, windows), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 closed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 3 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | compound |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 closed | nsubj |
| 5 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 closed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 eyes | acl |
| 10 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 side | nmod:poss |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 side | amod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 closed | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 snore | mark |
| 19 | snore | snore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 loud | advmod |
| 21 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 snore | xcomp |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 rattled | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 windows | det |
| 24 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rattled | nsubj |
| 25 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 loud | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past | the Serpent King | King's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn round | participle | King's eyes not said here | King's other side | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | begin | past | the Serpent King not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | snore | to-infinitive | the Serpent King not said here | loud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | rattle | past | the windows | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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