The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 96

Foaming with rage, he tried to press towards Labakan, but the attendants threw themselves upon him and held him fast, whilst the king said, “Truly, my dear son, the poor fellow is quite mad.

Who acts: Prince, attendants, king, poor fellow · What happens: foam, try, press, throw, hold, say · To what, where: Labakan, attendants, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, attendants, king, poor fellow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2435:3046): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foaming	foam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tried	advcl
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 rage	case
3	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Foaming	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Foaming	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 press	mark
8	press	press	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	towards	towards	ADP	_	10 Labakan	case
10	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 press	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 threw	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 threw	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 attendants	det
14	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 threw	nsubj
15	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tried	conj
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 threw	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 threw	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 held	cc
20	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 threw	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 held	obj
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 held	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
24	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	27 said	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 held	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 mad	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 mad	punct
30	Truly	truly	ADV	_	41 mad	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 son	punct
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 son	nmod:poss
33	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 son	amod
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 mad	vocative
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 son	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 fellow	det
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 fellow	amod
38	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 mad	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 mad	cop
40	quite	quite	ADV	_	41 mad	advmod
41	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 said	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	foam	gerund	Prince not said here			with rage	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme
2	try	past	Prince				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	press not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here		Labakan		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent towards labakan=Trajectory
4	throw	past	the attendants	attendants = attendant		upon Prince	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme upon he=Destination
5	hold	past	the attendants not said here	Prince		fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	the king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	present	the poor fellow			my dear son vocative; mad, truly 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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