Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 59

The very next minute, four and twenty men, all dressed in green, and car-ry-ing long bows in their hands, came running across the fields.

Who acts: twenty men, next minute · What happens: dress, come, run · To what, where: all, green, fields

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twenty men, next minute), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 minute	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 next	advmod
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 minute	amod
4	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 four	punct
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 minute	appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 men	cc
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 men	nummod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 minute	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dressed	punct
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 dressed	nsubj:pass
12	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 men	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 green	case
14	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dressed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ing	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ing	cc
17	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ry	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 car	punct
19	ry	ry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ing	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 ry	punct
21	ing	ing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 minute	conj
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bows	amod
23	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ing	appos
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hands	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hands	nmod:poss
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bows	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 minute	punct
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 came	advcl
30	across	across	ADP	_	32 fields	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fields	det
32	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 running	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dress	participle · passive	twenty men not said here	all	green	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	come	past	the next minute and twenty men and ry ing			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	gerund	the next minute and twenty men and ry ing not said here		the fields	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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