The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 19

Then the kings and princes began to arrive one after another, and all were most anxious to see the hairy man; but he was gone!

Who acts: kings, all, king · What happens: begin, arrive, be, see · To what, where: one, hairy man

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kings, all, king), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kings	det
3	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 began	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 princes	cc
5	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kings	conj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 arrive	mark
8	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 arrive	obj
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 another	case
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 one	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 anxious	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 anxious	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 anxious	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 anxious	cop
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 anxious	advmod
17	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 began	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 anxious	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 gone	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 gone	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gone	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 gone	cop
27	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 began	parataxis
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the kings and princes		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	arrive	to-infinitive	the kings and princes not said here	one	after another		tree rules
3	is	past	all			anxious property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	all not said here	the hairy man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
5	is	past	king			gone property	tree rules

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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