The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 112

When he entered the shop, his master came forward to ask what was his pleasure, but as soon as he saw who it was he called his workmen, and they all fell on Labakan with blows and angry words, till at last he fell, half fainting, on a heap of old clothes.

Who acts: midst, master, workmen · What happens: enter, come forward, ask, be, see, fall · To what, where: shop, pleasure, Labakan · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (midst, master, workmen), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 entered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entered	nsubj
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shop	det
5	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 entered	punct
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 master	nmod:poss
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	forward	forward	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 ask	mark
12	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 came	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 pleasure	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pleasure	cop
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pleasure	nmod:poss
16	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ask	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 soon	advmod
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 saw	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 saw	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 called	nsubj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 called	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 called	cop
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 called	nsubj
28	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saw	ccomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 workmen	nmod:poss
30	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 called	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fell	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fell	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fell	nsubj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 fell	advmod
35	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saw	parataxis
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 Labakan	case
37	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 fell	obl
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 blows	case
39	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 fell	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 words	cc
41	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 words	amod
42	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 blows	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 fell	punct
44	till	till	ADP	_	46 last	case
45	at	at	ADP	_	46 last	case
46	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fell	obl
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 fell	nsubj
48	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 fell	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 fainting	punct
50	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	51 fainting	advmod
51	fainting	faint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 fell	advcl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 heap	punct
53	on	on	ADP	_	55 heap	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 heap	det
55	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 fainting	conj
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 clothes	case
57	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 clothes	amod
58	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	55 heap	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	midst	the shop				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shop=Destination
2	come forward	past	midst's master				forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	midst's master not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		midst's pleasure				tree rules
5	see	past	midst				soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	is	past					call property	tree rules
7	fall	past	workmen = workman		Labakan		with blows and angry words	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on labakan=Location
8	fall	past	midst			till last		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	faint	gerund	midst not said here				half property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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