The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 10

All the people came crowding round to peep at it, and declared it was the most beautiful baby that ever was seen.

Who acts: people, cradle · What happens: come, crowd, peep, declare, be, see · To what, where: beautiful baby · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, cradle), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 people	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	crowding	crowd	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 came	xcomp
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 crowding	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 peep	mark
8	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 crowding	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 peep	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 declared	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 declared	cc
13	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 baby	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 baby	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 baby	det
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 beautiful	advmod
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 baby	amod
19	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 declared	ccomp
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 seen	nsubj
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 seen	advmod
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seen	aux:pass
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 baby	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	all people				tree rules
2	crowd	gerund	all people not said here			round property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	peep	to-infinitive	all people not said here			at cradle	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
4	declare speech: other	past	all people not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	cradle	the beautiful baby			tree rules
6	see	past · passive		the beautiful baby	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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