The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 82
When he had finished he heard a great noise in the next room, which he knew meant that the Beast was coming.
Who acts: supper, great noise, Beast · What happens: finish, hear, know, mean, come · To what, where: next room · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supper, great noise, Beast), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 heard | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 noise | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 noise | amod |
| 9 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meant | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 room | amod |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 noise | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 knew | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 room | acl:relcl |
| 18 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | ccomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 coming | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Beast | det |
| 21 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 coming | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 coming | aux |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 meant | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | supper | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | supper | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | know | past | supper | the next room | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | mean | past | a great noise in the next room | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come | past · progressive | the Beast | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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