English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 10

In the middle of the night Mr. Vinegar was disturbed by the sound of voices underneath, and to his horror and dismay found that it was a band of thieves met to divide their booty.

Who acts: sound, dismay · What happens: disturb, find, be, meet, divide · To what, where: Vinegar, middle, band, thieves, booty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, dismay), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 disturbed	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Vinegar	nmod:desc
8	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 disturbed	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 disturbed	aux:pass
10	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 sound	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sound	det
13	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 disturbed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 voices	case
15	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sound	nmod
16	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	15 voices	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 found	cc
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 horror	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 horror	nmod:poss
21	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 found	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dismay	cc
23	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 horror	conj
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 disturbed	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 band	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 band	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 band	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 band	det
29	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 found	ccomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 thieves	case
31	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 band	nmod
32	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 thieves	acl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 divide	mark
34	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 met	xcomp
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 booty	nmod:poss
36	booty	booty	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 divide	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 disturbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	disturb	past · passive	the sound of voices	Vinegar Mr.	the middle of the night		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	find	past				to love's horror and dismay	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	dismay	a band		of thieves	tree rules
4	meet	participle		thieves not said here			tree rules
5	divide	to-infinitive		Mr.'s booty			vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent booty=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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