The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 11

The doors flew open, and between rows of low-bending courtiers and servants the king approached the throne, leading his pretended son by the hand.

Who acts: doors, rows · What happens: fly, bend, servant, approach, lead, pretend · To what, where: king, throne, pretended son

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors, rows), 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 doors	det
2	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flew	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 approached	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 approached	cc
7	between	between	ADP	_	8 rows	case
8	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 approached	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 courtiers	case
10	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 courtiers	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 low	punct
12	bending	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 courtiers	amod
13	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rows	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 servants	cc
15	servants	servant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 courtiers	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 servants	obj
18	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 throne	det
20	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 approached	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 leading	punct
22	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 approached	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 son	nmod:poss
24	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 son	amod
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leading	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 hand	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hand	det
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leading	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the doors		open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bend	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	servant	present	rows of low bending courtiers not said here	the king		tree rules
4	approach	past	rows of low bending courtiers	the throne		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Theme
5	lead	gerund	rows of low bending courtiers not said here	king's pretended son	by the hand	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme by hand=Destination
6	pretend	participle				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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