The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 67
But just as she entered the church and took the hand of the bridegroom, who was waiting for her, a loud noise was heard.
Who acts: dress, bridegroom · What happens: enter, take, wait, hear · To what, where: church, hand, loud noise
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dress, bridegroom), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 entered | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 entered | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 entered | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 entered | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hand | det |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bridegroom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bridegroom | det |
| 14 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hand | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 waiting | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 waiting | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 waiting | aux |
| 18 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 bridegroom | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 waiting | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 heard | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 noise | det |
| 23 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 noise | amod |
| 24 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heard | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 heard | aux:pass |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 hand | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | dress | the church | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take | past | dress not said here | the hand of the bridegroom | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | past · progressive | the bridegroom | for dress | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear | past · passive | a loud noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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