English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 92
However, she heard the king coming along the passage.
Who acts: woman, king · What happens: hear, come · To what, where: king, passage
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, king), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 king | acl |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 passage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 passage | det |
| 10 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | woman | the king | however property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | the king not said here | the passage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along passage=Initial_Location |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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