The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 42

But when they heard that she had only come to be with them for a short time, and then must go back to the Beast’s palace for ever, they lamented loudly.

Who acts: brothers, sound · What happens: hear, come, be, go back, lament · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, sound), 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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 come	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	13 them	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 them	cop
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 time	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 go	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 go	advmod
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	conj
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	28 palace	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Beast	det
26	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 palace	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 Beast	case
28	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 ever	case
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 palace	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lamented	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 lamented	nsubj
33	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
34	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	33 lamented	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	brothers = brother			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	past	sound	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	sound not said here		with brothers = brother	tree rules
4	go back	must	brothers = brother not said here	then	to the Beast's palace result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
5	lament	past	brothers = brother		loudly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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