The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 45
By-and-by there was a sound of people coming through the courtyard, and the measured tramp of soldiers.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, come, measure · To what, where: sound, courtyard
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sound | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sound | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 was | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sound | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sound | nmod |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 people | acl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 courtyard | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 courtyard | det |
| 15 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coming | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tramp | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tramp | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tramp | det |
| 19 | measured | measure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tramp | amod |
| 20 | tramp | tramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 soldiers | case |
| 22 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tramp | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a sound and the measured tramp of soldiers | of people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | people not said here | the courtyard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through courtyard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | measure | participle | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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