The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 28
The more he howled the more the others laughed, till a girl who had been washing clothes in the neighbouring stream hurried up to see what was the matter.
Who acts: youth, others, girl · What happens: howl, laugh, wash, hurry up, see, be · To what, where: clothes, neighbouring stream, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, others, girl), 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 more | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 howled | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 howled | nsubj |
| 4 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 more | det |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 laughed | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 others | det |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 laughed | nsubj |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 howled | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 girl | punct |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 13 girl | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laughed | ccomp |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 washing | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 washing | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 washing | aux |
| 17 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 girl | acl:relcl |
| 18 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 washing | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 stream | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stream | det |
| 21 | neighbouring | neighbouring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stream | amod |
| 22 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clothes | nmod |
| 23 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 stream | acl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 hurried | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hurried | advcl |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 matter | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 matter | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 matter | det |
| 30 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 howled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | past | youth | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | laugh | past | the others | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wash | past · perfect · progressive | a girl | clothes | the neighbouring stream | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | |||
| 4 | hurry up | participle | the neighbouring stream not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules |
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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