The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 30

A moment afterwards she heard faintly the roll of the drums that announced the king’s presence, and saw a crowd of people approaching the grove of palms.

Who acts: moment, drums, people · What happens: hear, announce, see, approach, roll · To what, where: roll, presence, crowd, grove, drums

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, drums, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 moment	det
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	5 heard	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	faintly	faintly	ADV	_	5 heard	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roll	det
8	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 drums	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 drums	det
11	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 roll	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 announced	nsubj
13	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 drums	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 presence	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 king	case
17	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 announced	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 crowd	det
22	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 people	case
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 crowd	nmod
25	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 people	acl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grove	det
27	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 approaching	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 palms	case
29	palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 grove	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	a moment	the roll of the drums	afterwards, faintly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer roll=Stimulus
2	announce speech: other	past	the drums	the king's presence		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Theme
3	see	past	a moment not said here	a crowd of people		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crowd=Stimulus
4	approach	gerund	people not said here	the grove of palms		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grove=Theme
5	roll			the drums		nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient

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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