The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 71

The Prince, without the smallest hesitation, snatched up a great stone, and hammered vigorously upon the bell, which gave forth a deep and terrible sound, the gate flew open, and closed again with a thundering clang the moment the Prince had passed through it, while from every tower and battlement rose a wheeling, screaming crowd of bats which darkened the whole sky with their multitudes.

Who acts: smallest hesitation, bell, gate, crowd · What happens: snatch up, hammer, give, fly, close, pass · To what, where: great stone, deep sound, moment, bell, wheeling, tower

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smallest hesitation, bell, gate, crowd), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hesitation	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hesitation	punct
4	without	without	ADP	_	7 hesitation	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hesitation	det
6	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 hesitation	amod
7	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 snatched	punct
9	snatched	snatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 hesitation	acl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 snatched	compound:prt
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stone	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stone	amod
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snatched	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hammered	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hammered	cc
16	hammered	hammer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hesitation	conj
17	vigorously	vigorously	ADV	_	16 hammered	advmod
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 bell	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bell	det
20	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hammered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 gave	nsubj
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bell	acl:relcl
24	forth	forth	ADV	_	23 gave	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 sound	det
26	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sound	amod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 terrible	cc
28	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 deep	conj
29	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 flew	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 gate	det
32	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flew	nsubj
33	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sound	parataxis
34	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 flew	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 closed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 closed	cc
37	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 flew	conj
38	again	again	ADV	_	37 closed	advmod
39	with	with	ADP	_	42 clang	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 clang	det
41	thundering	thundering	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 clang	compound
42	clang	clang	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 passed	obl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 moment	det
44	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 passed	nsubj:pass
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Prince	det
46	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 moment	appos
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 passed	aux
48	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 closed	advcl
49	through	through	ADP	_	50 it	case
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 passed	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 rose	punct
52	while	while	SCONJ	_	58 rose	mark
53	from	from	ADP	_	55 tower	case
54	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	55 tower	det
55	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 rose	obl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 battlement	cc
57	battlement	battlement	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 tower	conj
58	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 passed	conj
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 wheeling	det
60	wheeling	wheeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 rose	obj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 screaming	punct
62	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 rose	advcl
63	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 screaming	obj
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 bats	case
65	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 crowd	nmod
66	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	67 darkened	nsubj
67	darkened	darken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 crowd	acl:relcl
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 sky	det
69	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 sky	amod
70	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 darkened	obj
71	with	with	ADP	_	73 multitudes	case
72	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	73 multitudes	nmod:poss
73	multitudes	multitude	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 darkened	obl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hesitation	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snatch up	participle	the smallest hesitation not said here	a great stone				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hammer	past					upon the bell; vigorously property	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	the bell	a deep sound			forth property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
4	fly	past	the gate				open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	close	participle	the gate not said here			again		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	pass	past · perfect · passive		the moment	bell		with a thundering clang	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme through it=Destination
7	rise	past		a wheeling	every tower and battlement			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient wheeling=Extent from tower=Initial_State
8	scream speech: express	gerund		crowd of bats				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Topic
9	darken	past	crowd of bats	the whole sky			with gates's multitudes	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sky=Patient with multitude=Instrument

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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