--- title: When evening came she heard the noise of footsteps outside, and beca… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:49:75 # text = 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. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 footsteps footstep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 outside outside ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 aware aware ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 ccomp _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 29 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obj _ _ 30 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 after after ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obl _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 acl _ _ 39 towards towards ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 couch couch NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/49/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/49/76/) - ↑ back to [Hermod and Hadvor (32)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/49/)