The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 98

An hour or two passed, and everyone was waiting and watching, when at last the sound of trumpets was heard and a grand procession was seen marching up the street.

Who acts: hour, everyone, grand procession · What happens: pass, wait, watch, hear, see, march up · To what, where: last sound, grand procession, street

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour, everyone, grand procession), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hour	det
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 two	cc
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hour	conj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 waiting	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 waiting	cc
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 waiting	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 waiting	aux
10	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 passed	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 watching	cc
12	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 waiting	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 heard	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 sound	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sound	amod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sound	det
18	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 trumpets	case
20	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sound	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 heard	aux:pass
22	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 waiting	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 seen	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 procession	det
25	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 procession	amod
26	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seen	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seen	aux:pass
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 heard	conj
29	marching	march	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 seen	xcomp
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 marching	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 street	det
32	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 marching	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pass	participle	a hour			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait	past · progressive	everyone			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	watch	gerund	everyone not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past · passive			the last sound of trumpets	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»
5	see	past · passive		a grand procession		tree rules
6	march up	gerund	a grand procession not said here	the street		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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