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The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 72

The sound of the flying hoofs aroused the nun, who understood instantly that the precious treasure was stolen, and her shrieks were so loud and piercing that all the rest came flying to see what was the matter.

Who acts: sound, nun, shrieks, rest, princess · What happens: fly, arouse, understand, steal, be, pierce · To what, where: nun, precious treasure, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, nun, shrieks, rest), 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

detnsubjcasedetamodnmoddetobjpunctnsubjacl:relcladvmodmarkdetamodnsubj:passaux:passadvclpunctccnmod:possnsubjcopadvmodparataxisccadvclmarkdet:predetdetnsubjadvclxcompmarkadvclnsubjcopdetccomppunctrootTheDETsoundNOUNofADPtheDETflyingVERBhoofsNOUNarousedVERBtheDETnunNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONunderstoodVERBinstantlyADVthatSCONJtheDETpreciousADJtreasureNOUNwasAUXstolenVERB,PUNCTandCCONJherPRONshrieksNOUNwereAUXsoADVloudADJandCCONJpiercingVERBthatSCONJallDETtheDETrestNOUNcameVERBflyingVERBtoPARTseeVERBwhatPRONwasAUXtheDETmatterNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 sounddet
2soundsoundNOUNNumber=Sing7 arousednsubj
3ofofADP_6 hoofscase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 hoofsdet
5flyingflyVERBVerbForm=Ger6 hoofsamod
6hoofshoofNOUNNumber=Plur2 soundnmod
7arousedarouseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 nundet
9nunnunNOUNNumber=Sing7 arousedobj
10,,PUNCT_12 understoodpunct
11whowhoPRONPronType=Rel12 understoodnsubj
12understoodunderstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 nunacl:relcl
13instantlyinstantlyADV_12 understoodadvmod
14thatthatSCONJ_19 stolenmark
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 treasuredet
16preciouspreciousADJDegree=Pos17 treasureamod
17treasuretreasureNOUNNumber=Sing19 stolennsubj:pass
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 stolenaux:pass
19stolenstealVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass12 understoodadvcl
20,,PUNCT_26 loudpunct
21andandCCONJ_26 loudcc
22herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 shrieksnmod:poss
23shrieksshriekNOUNNumber=Plur26 loudnsubj
24werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 loudcop
25sosoADV_26 loudadvmod
26loudloudADJDegree=Pos7 arousedparataxis
27andandCCONJ_28 piercingcc
28piercingpierceVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part26 loudadvcl
29thatthatSCONJ_33 camemark
30allallDETPronType=Tot32 restdet:predet
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 restdet
32restrestNOUNNumber=Sing33 camensubj
33camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 piercingadvcl
34flyingflyVERBVerbForm=Ger33 camexcomp
35totoPART_36 seemark
36seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf34 flyingadvcl
37whatwhatPRONPronType=Int40 matternsubj
38wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin40 mattercop
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 matterdet
40mattermatterNOUNNumber=Sing36 seeccomp
41..PUNCT_7 arousedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1flygerundvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2arousepastthe sound of the flying hoofsthe nunvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nun=Experiencer
3understandpastthe nuninstantly propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4stealpast · passivethe precious treasurevn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5ispastprincess's shrieksloud propertytree rules
6piercegerundprincess's shrieks not said herevn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7comepastall resttree rules
8flygerundall rest not said herevn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9seeto-infinitiveall rest not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10is apastthe mattertree rules
11shriekprincessnom shriek «communication transitive»: 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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