The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 67
At the same moment a sound as of thunder was heard all over the castle, and on all the staircases and in every room sounds were to be heard.
What happens: hear · To what, where: sound, castle, staircases
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 9 thunder | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sound | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | aux:pass |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 castle | advmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 heard | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 heard | cc |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 staircases | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 staircases | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 staircases | det |
| 21 | staircases | staircase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 heard | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sounds | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 sounds | case |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 sounds | det |
| 25 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sounds | compound |
| 26 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 staircases | conj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 heard | aux:pass |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 heard | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 heard | aux:pass |
| 30 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 heard | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | a sound as thunder | the castle | moment | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | all staircases and every room sounds | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
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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