The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 75

When evening came she heard the noise of footsteps outside, and became aware that the lion had come to the mouth of the cave, and shook itself there, after which she heard a man coming towards the couch.

Who acts: evening, rope, lion, man, footsteps · What happens: come, hear, become, shake, noise · To what, where: noise, mouth, cave, man, couch

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, rope, lion, man), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	advcl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 noise	det
7	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 footsteps	case
9	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 noise	nmod
10	outside	outside	ADV	_	9 footsteps	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 became	cc
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
14	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 became	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 come	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lion	det
17	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 aware	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 mouth	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mouth	det
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 cave	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cave	det
25	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mouth	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 shook	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 shook	cc
28	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
29	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 shook	obj
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 shook	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 heard	punct
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 heard	obl
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 heard	nsubj
35	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 shook	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 heard	obj
38	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 man	acl
39	towards	towards	ADP	_	41 couch	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 couch	det
41	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 coming	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	evening				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	rope	the noise of footsteps			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
3	become	past	rope not said here			aware property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	come	past · perfect	the lion		the mouth of the cave		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mouth=Initial_Location
5	shake	past	rope not said here	cave	there		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
6	hear	past	rope	a man			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
7	come	gerund	a man not said here		the couch		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards couch=Initial_Location
8	noise		footsteps				nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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