The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 10

They crowded round him, and praised him, and pressed him to come to their homes, declaring that it was a shame not to give their friends the chance of hearing such music.

Who acts: people, hearing such music · What happens: crowd, praise, press, come, declare, be · To what, where: Tiidu, homes, shame, chance, friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, hearing such music), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crowded	nsubj
2	crowded	crowd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crowded	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 praised	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 praised	cc
7	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crowded	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 praised	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pressed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pressed	cc
11	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crowded	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pressed	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 come	mark
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pressed	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 homes	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 homes	nmod:poss
17	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 declaring	punct
19	declaring	declare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 pressed	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 shame	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shame	expl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 shame	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 shame	det
24	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 declaring	ccomp
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 give	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 give	mark
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 shame	acl:relcl
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 friends	nmod:poss
29	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 give	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chance	det
31	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 music	case
33	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 music	compound
34	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 music	amod
35	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chance	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crowded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	crowd	past	people				round Tiidu	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round he=Destination
2	praise	past	people not said here	Tiidu				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	press	past		Tiidu				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
4	come	to-infinitive				people's homes		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location
5	declare speech: other	gerund						vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past		a shame				tree rules
7	not give	to-infinitive		the chance of hearing such music	people's friends			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient chance=Theme
8	chance		hearing such music					nom chance «state 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 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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