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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 aroused | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hoofs | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hoofs | det |
| 5 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 hoofs | amod |
| 6 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sound | nmod |
| 7 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nun | det |
| 9 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 aroused | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 understood | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 understood | nsubj |
| 12 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 nun | acl:relcl |
| 13 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 12 understood | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 stolen | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 treasure | det |
| 16 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 treasure | amod |
| 17 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stolen | aux:pass |
| 19 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 understood | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 loud | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 loud | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shrieks | nmod:poss |
| 23 | shrieks | shriek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 loud | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 loud | cop |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 loud | advmod |
| 26 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 aroused | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 piercing | cc |
| 28 | piercing | pierce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 loud | advcl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 came | mark |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 rest | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 rest | det |
| 32 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 came | nsubj |
| 33 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 piercing | advcl |
| 34 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 came | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 see | mark |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 flying | advcl |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 40 matter | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 matter | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 matter | det |
| 40 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 see | ccomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 aroused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | arouse | past | the sound of the flying hoofs | the nun | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nun=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | understand | past | the nun | instantly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | steal | past · passive | the precious treasure | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | princess's shrieks | loud property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pierce | gerund | princess's shrieks not said here | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | come | past | all rest | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | fly | gerund | all rest not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | see | to-infinitive | all rest not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 10 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 11 | shriek | princess | nom 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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