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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 67

And the husband promised, and for a while all was still; and he thought no more about the matter till he noticed at last that the nearer he drew to the house the louder grew the noise of the trampling of feet behind him.

Who acts: husband, trampling, feet · What happens: promise, think, notice, draw, grow, noise · To what, where: more, last, house, noise

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, trampling, feet), 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

ccdetnsubjpunctcccasedetoblconjacl:relcladvmodpunctccnsubjconjadvmodobjcasedetoblmarknsubjadvclcaseoblmarkdetadvmodnsubjadvclcasedetobldetadvmodadvcldetobjcasedetnmodcasenmodcasenmodpunctrootAndCCONJtheDEThusbandNOUNpromisedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJforADPaDETwhileNOUNallDETwasAUXstillADV;PUNCTandCCONJhePRONthoughtVERBnoADVmoreADJaboutADPtheDETmatterNOUNtillSCONJhePRONnoticedVERBatADPlastADJthatSCONJtheDETnearerADJhePRONdrewVERBtoADPtheDEThouseNOUNtheDETlouderADJgrewVERBtheDETnoiseNOUNofADPtheDETtramplingNOUNofADPfeetNOUNbehindADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_4 promisedcc
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 husbanddet
3husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing4 promisednsubj
4promisedpromiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5,,PUNCT_9 whilepunct
6andandCCONJ_9 whilecc
7forforADP_9 whilecase
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 whiledet
9whilewhileNOUNNumber=Sing4 promisedobl
10allallDETPronType=Tot4 promisedconj
11wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 allacl:relcl
12stillstillADV_11 wasadvmod
13;;PUNCT_16 thoughtpunct
14andandCCONJ_16 thoughtcc
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 thoughtnsubj
16thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 promisedconj
17nonoADV_18 moreadvmod
18moremoreADJDegree=Cmp16 thoughtobj
19aboutaboutADP_21 mattercase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 matterdet
21mattermatterNOUNNumber=Sing18 moreobl
22tilltillSCONJ_24 noticedmark
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 noticednsubj
24noticednoticeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 thoughtadvcl
25atatADP_26 lastcase
26lastlastADJDegree=Pos24 noticedobl
27thatthatSCONJ_31 drewmark
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 nearerdet
29nearernearADJDegree=Cmp31 drewadvmod
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 drewnsubj
31drewdrawVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 noticedadvcl
32totoADP_34 housecase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 housedet
34househouseNOUNNumber=Sing31 drewobl
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 louderdet
36louderloudADJDegree=Cmp37 grewadvmod
37grewgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 drewadvcl
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 noisedet
39noisenoiseNOUNNumber=Sing37 grewobj
40ofofADP_42 tramplingcase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 tramplingdet
42tramplingtramplingNOUNNumber=Sing39 noisenmod
43ofofADP_44 feetcase
44feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur42 tramplingnmod
45behindbehindADP_46 himcase
46himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs44 feetnmod
47..PUNCT_4 promisedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1promise speech: promisepastthe husbandwhilevn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2think speech: otherpasthusbandmorevn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme
3noticepasthusbandlastvn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4drawpasthusbandthe housevn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to house=Destination
5growpasthusband not said herethe noise of the trampling of feet behind husbandvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location noise=Theme
6noisethe trampling of feet behind husbandnom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent
7tramplefeet behind husbandnom trampling «event intransitive»: of=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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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