The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 62
So she hid him under the staircase, and soon they heard the south wind arrive, shaking the house to its foundations.
Who acts: wind, laths · What happens: hide, hear, arrive, shake · To what, where: sun, staircase, south wind, house, foundations · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, laths), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 hid | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hid | obj |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 staircase | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 staircase | det |
| 7 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 heard | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hid | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wind | det |
| 14 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wind | compound |
| 15 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obj |
| 16 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 heard | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shaking | punct |
| 18 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 heard | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shaking | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 foundations | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 foundations | nmod:poss |
| 23 | foundations | foundation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shaking | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | wind | sun | the staircase | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient under staircase=Location | |||
| 2 | hear | past | laths = lath | the south wind | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | arrive | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | shake | gerund | laths = lath not said here | the house | home's foundations | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent house=Theme to foundation=Trajectory |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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