The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 12

While she was walking in a profound meditation, she heard a confused noise under her feet, as it were of a great many people who went backwards and forwards, and were very busy.

Who acts: noise, meditation, great many people · What happens: walk, hear, be, go · To what, where: profound meditation, confused noise, feet

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, meditation, great many people), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 walking	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walking	aux
4	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 heard	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 meditation	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meditation	det
7	profound	profound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meditation	amod
8	meditation	meditation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walking	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 noise	det
13	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 noise	amod
14	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obj
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 feet	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feet	nmod:poss
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 people	punct
19	as	as	ADP	_	26 people	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 people	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 people	cop
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 people	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 people	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 people	amod
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 people	amod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	obl
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 people	acl:relcl
29	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 forwards	cc
31	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	29 backwards	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 busy	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 busy	cc
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 busy	cop
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 busy	advmod
36	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 heard	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	noise		a profound meditation		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meditation=Trajectory
2	hear	past	noise	a confused noise	noise's feet		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
3	is	past	meditation			as a great many people	tree rules
4	go	past	a great many people			backwards property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	noise not said here			busy property	tree rules

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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