The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 23

Then began a tremendous noise and confusion, and they knew that the enemy had arrived, and very soon they heard the King himself stamping about the palace seeking the Queen.

Who acts: noise, enemy, King · What happens: begin, know, arrive, hear, stamp, seek · To what, where: tremendous noise, King, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, enemy, King), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 began	advmod
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 noise	det
4	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 noise	amod
5	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 confusion	cc
7	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 noise	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 knew	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 arrived	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 enemy	det
14	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 arrived	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 arrived	aux
16	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 knew	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 heard	cc
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 soon	advmod
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 heard	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obj
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 heard	obl
26	stamping	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 heard	xcomp
27	about	about	ADP	_	29 palace	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 palace	det
29	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stamping	obl
30	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 stamping	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Queen	det
32	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 seeking	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past		a tremendous noise and confusion	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Eventuality
2	know	past	noise				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	arrive	past · perfect	the enemy				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	past	noise	the King		enemy obl; soon property	tree rules
5	stamp	gerund	the King not said here			about the palace	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent about palace=Destination
6	seek	gerund	the King not said here	the Queen			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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