The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 10

At midnight she heard to her great horror some one coming along the passage, and in a minute her door was flung wide open and a troop of strange beings entered the room.

Who acts: Princess, troop · What happens: hear, come, fling, enter · To what, where: one, passage, door, room

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, troop), 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	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
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	to	to	ADP	_	8 horror	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horror	nmod:poss
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horror	amod
8	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	det
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 heard	obj
11	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 heard	advcl
12	along	along	ADP	_	14 passage	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 passage	det
14	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coming	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flung	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flung	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 minute	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 minute	det
19	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flung	obl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 door	nmod:poss
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flung	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 flung	aux:pass
23	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heard	parataxis
24	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 open	advmod
25	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flung	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 entered	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 troop	det
28	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 entered	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 beings	case
30	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beings	amod
31	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 troop	nmod
32	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 flung	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 room	det
34	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 entered	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Princess	some one		midnight	to Princess's great horror	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	Princess not said here		the passage			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along passage=Initial_Location
3	fling	past · passive		Princess's door		minute	open property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	enter	past	a troop of strange beings	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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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