The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 80
At the same moment the wheels of a chariot were heard upon the terrace, and two ladies entered the room.
Who acts: two ladies · What happens: hear, enter · To what, where: wheels, room
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 (two ladies), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wheels | det |
| 6 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 chariot | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chariot | det |
| 9 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wheels | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | aux:pass |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 terrace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 terrace | det |
| 14 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 entered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 entered | cc |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 ladies | nummod |
| 18 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 entered | nsubj |
| 19 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entered | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | the wheels of a chariot | moment | upon the terrace | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | enter | past | two ladies | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
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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