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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 73

When he saw them coming he rushed eagerly to meet them, and he took the maiden in his arms and kissed her tenderly before them all.

Who acts: prince, shoulders · What happens: see, come, rush, meet, take, kiss · To what, where: shoulders, maiden

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 (prince, shoulders), 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

advmodnsubjobjxcompnsubjccompadvmodmarkadvclobjpunctccnsubjparataxisdetobjcasenmod:possoblccconjnmod:possxcompcaseoblnmod:unmarkedpunctrootWhenADVhePRONsawVERBthemPRONcomingVERBhePRONrushedVERBeagerlyADVtoPARTmeetVERBthemPRON,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONtookVERBtheDETmaidenADJinADPhisPRONarmsNOUNandCCONJkissedVERBherPRONtenderlyADJbeforeADPthemPRONallDET.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 sawadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 sawnsubj
3sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 sawobj
5comingcomeVERBVerbForm=Ger3 sawxcomp
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 rushednsubj
7rushedrushVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 comingccomp
8eagerlyeagerlyADV_7 rushedadvmod
9totoPART_10 meetmark
10meetmeetVERBVerbForm=Inf7 rushedadvcl
11themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 meetobj
12,,PUNCT_15 tookpunct
13andandCCONJ_15 tookcc
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 tooknsubj
15tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 sawparataxis
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 maidendet
17maidenmaidenADJDegree=Pos15 tookobj
18ininADP_20 armscase
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 armsnmod:poss
20armsarmNOUNNumber=Plur17 maidenobl
21andandCCONJ_22 kissedcc
22kissedkissVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 tookconj
23herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 tenderlynmod:poss
24tenderlytenderlyADJDegree=Pos22 kissedxcomp
25beforebeforeADP_26 themcase
26themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs22 kissedobl
27allallDETPronType=Tot26 themnmod:unmarked
28..PUNCT_3 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastprinceshoulders = shouldertree rules
2comegerundshoulders = shoulder not said heretree rules
3rushpastprinceeagerly propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4meetto-infinitiveprince not said hereshoulders = shouldervn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
5takepastprincethe maidenvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme
6kisspastprince not said herebefore shoulders = shouldertenderly propertyvn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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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