The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 62

The struggle was so violent and the noise so loud that the old witch heard it, and said at once ‘Of course Parsley is at the bottom of all this.’

Who acts: struggle, noise, old witch, Parsley · What happens: be, hear, say · To what, where: struggle, this, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (struggle, noise, old witch, Parsley), 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 struggle	det
2	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 violent	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 violent	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 violent	advmod
5	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 loud	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 noise	det
8	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loud	nsubj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 loud	advmod
10	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 violent	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 heard	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 witch	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 witch	amod
14	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 loud	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 violent	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 said	obl
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 bottom	punct
23	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	29 bottom	advmod
24	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Of	fixed
25	Parsley	Parsley	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 bottom	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 bottom	cop
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 bottom	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bottom	det
29	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 bottom	nmod
32	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 said	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 violent	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 violent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the struggle			violent property	tree rules
2	be		the noise				tree rules
3	hear	past	the old witch	struggle			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	the struggle not said here	this			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
5	is	present	Parsley		the bottom	of all	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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