The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 22

And suddenly the tramp of horses’ hoofs was heard, and the barking of dogs, and the witch hastened forward to meet the royal carriages, and, throwing her arms round the King’s neck, kissed him.

What happens: hear, hasten, meet, throw, kiss · To what, where: tramp, witch, royal carriages, arms, King

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 heard	cc
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 tramp	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tramp	det
4	tramp	tramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 hoofs	case
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hoofs	nmod:poss
7	’	's	PART	_	6 horses	case
8	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tramp	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	aux:pass
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 barking	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 barking	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 barking	det
14	barking	barking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 dogs	case
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 barking	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 witch	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 witch	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 witch	det
20	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	conj
21	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 witch	acl
22	forward	forward	ADV	_	21 hastened	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 meet	mark
24	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hastened	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 carriages	det
26	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 carriages	amod
27	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 meet	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 throwing	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 throwing	cc
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 throwing	punct
31	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 heard	conj
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 arms	nmod:poss
33	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 throwing	obj
34	round	round	ADP	_	38 neck	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 King	det
36	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 neck	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 King	case
38	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 throwing	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 kissed	punct
40	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 throwing	conj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 kissed	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · passive	the tramp of horses's hoofs	the barking of dogs obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	hasten	participle	the witch not said here	forward property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	meet	to-infinitive	the royal carriages		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Co-Agent
4	throw	gerund	witch's arms	round the King's neck	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
5	kiss	past	King		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

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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