The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 16

But they had hardly finished their meal when the noise of the Beast’s footsteps was heard approaching, and Beauty clung to her father in terror, which became all the greater when she saw how frightened he was.

Who acts: steps, noise, Beauty, terror, footsteps · What happens: finish, hear, approach, cling, become, see · To what, where: meal, noise, terror

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steps, noise, Beauty, terror), 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 finished	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	aux
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 finished	advmod
5	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 meal	nmod:poss
7	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finished	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 heard	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 noise	det
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 footsteps	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Beast	det
13	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 footsteps	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Beast	case
15	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 noise	nmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux:pass
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 finished	advcl
18	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 heard	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 clung	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 clung	cc
21	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 clung	nsubj
22	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 father	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 clung	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 terror	case
27	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 clung	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 became	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 became	nsubj
30	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 terror	parataxis
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 greater	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 greater	det
33	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 became	xcomp
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 saw	advmod
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 saw	nsubj
36	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 became	advcl
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 frightened	advmod
38	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 saw	xcomp
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 was	nsubj
40	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 frightened	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	steps = step	steps's meal		hardly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality meal=Eventuality
2	hear	past · passive		the noise of the Beast's footsteps			tree rules
3	approach	gerund	the noise of the Beast's footsteps not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cling	past	Beauty		terror	to Beauty's father	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to father=Co-Theme
5	become	past	terror			great property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	see	past	Beauty				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	frighten	participle	Beauty not said here				tree rules
8	be	past	noise				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	noise		the Beast's footsteps				nom noise «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 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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