The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 20
They rushed at each other with such fury that the ground seemed to tremble under them and the whole air to be filled with their cries.
Who acts: clothes, ground · What happens: rush, seem, tremble, fill, cry · To what, where: each
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 (clothes, ground), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 each | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 rushed | obl |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 fury | case |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fury | amod |
| 8 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rushed | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 seemed | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tremble | mark |
| 14 | tremble | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tremble | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 air | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 air | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 air | amod |
| 20 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 them | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 filled | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 filled | aux:pass |
| 23 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 air | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 cries | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 cries | nmod:poss |
| 26 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 filled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | clothes | each | with such fury | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | seem | past | the ground | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | tremble | to-infinitive | the ground not said here | under clothes | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under they=Location | ||||
| 4 | fill | to-infinitive · passive | the ground not said here | with clothes's cries | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with cry=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | cry | clothes | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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