The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 35

The people had heard no music like his since he went away, and they crowded round him, and in their joy gave him whatever money they had in their pockets.

Who acts: people, Tiidu · What happens: hear, go away, crowd, give, have, joy · To what, where: music, whatever, Tiidu, joy, money, pockets

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Tiidu), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 music	det
6	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 his	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heard	obj
9	since	since	SCONJ	_	11 went	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	advcl
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crowded	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 crowded	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 crowded	nsubj
16	crowded	crowd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	parataxis
17	round	round	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 crowded	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gave	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gave	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 joy	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 joy	nmod:poss
23	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	obl
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 crowded	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gave	iobj
26	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 gave	obj
27	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 whatever	nsubj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 money	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 pockets	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pockets	nmod:poss
32	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	the people	no music				tree rules
2	go away	past	Tiidu				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	crowd	past	people				round Tiidu	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round he=Destination
4	give	past	people not said here	whatever	Tiidu	people's joy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient whatever=Theme
5	have	past	people	money not said here		people's pockets		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
6	joy		people					nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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