The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 31

The two ladies were at the moment deep in conversation with Prince Alphege, and hearing a knocking so late at night begged him to keep out of sight for a time.

Who acts: two ladies, hearing · What happens: be, hear, beg, keep out · To what, where: conversation, knocking, King, sight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (two ladies, hearing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ladies	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ladies	nummod
3	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 moment	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 moment	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 moment	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moment	det
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	deep	deep	ADV	_	10 conversation	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 conversation	case
10	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moment	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 Prince	case
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 conversation	nmod
13	Alphege	Alphege	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Prince	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 begged	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 begged	cc
16	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 begged	csubj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 knocking	det
18	knocking	knocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hearing	obj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 late	advmod
20	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 hearing	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 night	case
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hearing	obl
23	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 moment	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 begged	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 keep	mark
26	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 begged	xcomp
27	out	out	ADP	_	29 sight	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 sight	case
29	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keep	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 time	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keep	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 moment	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the two ladies			conversation with Prince	at the moment		tree rules
2	hear	gerund		a knocking			night	late property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer knocking=Stimulus
3	beg speech: request	past	hearing		King				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	keep out not said to happen	to-infinitive	hearing not said here	sight			time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=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 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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