The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 61

‘With these words she turned and gave a vigorous pull to the silken rope which I mentioned before, but instead of a melodious chime, there arose a hideous clanging which quite terrified me, and in an instant a huge Black Bird appeared, which alighted at the Fairy’s feet, saying in a frightful voice--

Who acts: current, I, hideous clanging, huge Black Bird · What happens: turn, give, mention, arise, terrify, appear · To what, where: vigorous pull, silken rope, hideous clanging, me, instant, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (current, I, hideous clanging, huge Black Bird), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct
2	With	with	ADP	_	4 words	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turned	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pull	det
10	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pull	amod
11	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 rope	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rope	det
14	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rope	amod
15	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 mentioned	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 mentioned	nsubj
18	mentioned	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rope	acl:relcl
19	before	before	ADV	_	18 mentioned	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 arose	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 arose	cc
22	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	26 chime	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 instead	fixed
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 chime	det
25	melodious	melodious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 chime	amod
26	chime	chime	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 arose	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 chime	punct
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 arose	expl
29	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 clanging	det
31	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 clanging	amod
32	clanging	clanging	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 arose	obj
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 terrified	nsubj
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 terrified	advmod
35	terrified	terrify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 clanging	acl:relcl
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 terrified	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 appeared	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 appeared	cc
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 instant	case
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 instant	det
41	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 appeared	obl
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 Bird	det
43	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Bird	amod
44	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Bird	amod
45	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 appeared	nsubj
46	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 alighted	punct
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 alighted	nsubj:pass
49	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 appeared	xcomp
50	at	at	ADP	_	54 feet	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Fairy	det
52	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 feet	nmod:poss
53	’s	's	PART	_	52 Fairy	case
54	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 alighted	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 saying	punct
56	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 alighted	advcl
57	in	in	ADP	_	60 voice	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 voice	det
59	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 voice	amod
60	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 saying	obl
61	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	current				with this words	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	give	past	current not said here	a vigorous pull	the silken rope			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pull=Theme to rope=Recipient
3	mention speech: other	past	I	the silken rope			before property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
4	arise	past	current not said here	a hideous clanging		there	instead a melodious chime	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clanging=Theme
5	terrify	past	a hideous clanging	me				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
6	appear	past	a huge Black Bird			a instant		tree rules
7	alight	participle · passive				the Fairy's feet		tree rules
8	say speech: assert	gerund				a frightful voice		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner

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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