The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 45

The heralds were almost in despair, when an old woman stepped out of the crowd and came and spoke to them.

Who acts: heralds, old woman · What happens: be, step out, come, speak · To what, where: despair, crowd, heralds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heralds, old woman), 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	2 heralds	det
2	heralds	herald	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 despair	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 despair	cop
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 despair	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 despair	case
6	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stepped	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 stepped	advmod
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stepped	nsubj
12	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 despair	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 crowd	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 crowd	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 crowd	det
16	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stepped	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stepped	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 spoke	cc
20	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 spoke	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 despair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the heralds			despair	almost property	tree rules
2	step out	past	a old woman	the crowd				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location crowd=Theme
3	come	past	a old woman not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	speak speech: other	past	a old woman not said here		heralds = herald			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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