Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 31
And immediately there was a whirring noise in the air, and a great flight of crickets alighted beside him, and amongst them the cricket whose life he had saved.
Who acts: whirring noise · What happens: be, alight, save · To what, where: crickets, cricket
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whirring noise), 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 | _ | 4 was | cc |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 6 | whirring | whirring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noise | compound |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noise | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flight | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flight | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 flight | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flight | amod |
| 15 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noise | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 crickets | case |
| 17 | crickets | cricket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flight | nmod |
| 18 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 crickets | acl |
| 19 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 alighted | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 saved | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 saved | cc |
| 23 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 saved | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cricket | det |
| 26 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 saved | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 saved | aux |
| 31 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 was | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a whirring noise in the air | there | immediately property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | alight | participle | crickets not said here | beside noise | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | past · perfect · passive | the cricket | amongst feelers = feeler | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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