The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 79

But presently she heard the Beast coming, and wondered tremblingly if he meant to eat her up now.

Who acts: supper, Beast, father · What happens: hear, come, wonder, mean, eat up · To what, where: Beast, supper

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 (supper, Beast, father), 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	_	4 heard	cc
2	presently	presently	ADV	_	4 heard	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Beast	det
6	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Beast	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wondered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wondered	cc
10	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
11	tremblingly	tremblingly	ADV	_	10 wondered	advmod
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 meant	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 meant	nsubj
14	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wondered	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 meant	xcomp
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eat	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 eat	compound:prt
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 eat	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	supper	the Beast		presently property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	the Beast not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wonder speech: ask	past	supper not said here			tremblingly property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	mean a condition, not said to happen	past	father				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	eat up not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here	supper	now		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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