English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 12

At once the room was darkened, and the house trembled; a clap of thunder rolled through the passage and the old room, and there stood before him a horrible, horrible form, breathing fire, and with eyes like burning lamps.

Who acts: house · What happens: darken, tremble, roll, stand, breathe, burn · To what, where: room, clap, passage, horrible horrible form, fire, thunder

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house), 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	_	2 once	case
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 darkened	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 darkened	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 darkened	aux:pass
6	darkened	darken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 trembled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 trembled	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trembled	nsubj
11	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 darkened	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 clap	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 clap	det
14	clap	clap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 darkened	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 thunder	case
16	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 clap	nmod
17	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 clap	acl
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 passage	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 passage	det
20	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rolled	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 room	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 room	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 room	amod
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 passage	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stood	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stood	cc
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 stood	advmod
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 darkened	conj
29	before	before	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stood	obl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 form	det
32	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 form	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 horrible	punct
34	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 form	amod
35	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stood	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 breathing	punct
37	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 stood	advcl
38	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 breathing	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 eyes	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 eyes	cc
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 eyes	case
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 stood	obl
43	like	like	ADP	_	45 lamps	case
44	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 lamps	amod
45	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 eyes	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 darkened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	darken	past · passive		the room			a clap of thunder obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	tremble	past	the house					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roll	participle		a clap of thunder not said here	the passage and the old room			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through passage=Trajectory
4	stand	past		a horrible horrible form	there	before house	with eyes like burning lamps	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent form=Theme before he=Destination
5	breathe	gerund		fire				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
6	burn	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	clap			thunder				nom clap «event transitive»: of=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: «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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