The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 17

Everyone pressed round the unhappy man, and the guards were about to seize him, when the queen, who at first was dumb with surprise, sprang up from her throne.

Who acts: guards, queen, Everyone · What happens: press, be, seize, spring up · To what, where: Omar, throne

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 (guards, queen, Everyone), 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	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	29 sprang	nsubj
2	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Everyone	acl
3	round	round	ADP	_	6 man	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pressed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 about	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 about	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guards	det
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 about	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 about	cop
12	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Everyone	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 seize	mark
14	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 about	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seize	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sprang	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 sprang	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 queen	det
19	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sprang	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dumb	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 dumb	nsubj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 first	case
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 dumb	obl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dumb	cop
25	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 queen	acl:relcl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 surprise	case
27	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dumb	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 surprise	punct
29	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 sprang	compound:prt
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 throne	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 throne	nmod:poss
33	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sprang	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	press	participle				round the unhappy man	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent round man=Trajectory
2	is	past	the guards			about property	tree rules
3	seize	to-infinitive	the guards not said here	Omar			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	is	past	the queen			with surprise; dumb property	tree rules
5	spring up	past	Everyone		queen's throne		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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