The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 17
Loud screams and shouts pierced the thin walls of the little hut.
Who acts: Loud screams · What happens: shout, pierce · To what, where: thin walls
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Loud screams), 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 | Loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 screams | amod |
| 2 | screams | scream | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shouts | cc |
| 4 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 screams | conj |
| 5 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 screams | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 walls | det |
| 7 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 walls | amod |
| 8 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pierced | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hut | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hut | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hut | amod |
| 12 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walls | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 screams | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pierce | participle | Loud screams not said here | the thin walls of the little hut | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient |
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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