English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 58
It rattled the millstone against the eaves of the house once more, and the stepmother said again: “It thunders.”
Who acts: thunder, stepmother · What happens: rattle, say, thunder · To what, where: millstone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thunder, stepmother), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rattled | nsubj |
| 2 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 millstone | det |
| 4 | millstone | millstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rattled | obj |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 eaves | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eaves | det |
| 7 | eaves | eave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rattled | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eaves | nmod |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 more | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 rattled | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stepmother | det |
| 16 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rattled | parataxis |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 said | advmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 thunders | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 thunders | punct |
| 21 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thunders | nsubj |
| 22 | thunders | thunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rattled | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 thunders | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 thunders | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rattle | past | thunder | the millstone | against the eaves of the house | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the stepmother | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | thunder in a quote | present | thunder | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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