The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 39
Suddenly a rustling sound was heard in the hollow of the tree, and an extraordinary old man with green eyes and chin crept out of it.
Who acts: extraordinary old man · What happens: rustle, hear, creep out · To what, where: rustling sound, hollow, sound
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (extraordinary old man), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 heard | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 3 | rustling | rustle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 sound | amod |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | aux:pass |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hollow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hollow | det |
| 9 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hollow | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 crept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 crept | cc |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 16 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 crept | nsubj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyes | amod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 man | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 chin | cc |
| 23 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eyes | conj |
| 24 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 crept | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rustle | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | a rustling sound | the hollow of the tree | suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | creep out | past | a extraordinary old man with green eyes and chin | sound | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=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: «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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