The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 8

When they heard of the queen’s summons they flocked from all parts, but none could cure him.

Who acts: doctors, none · What happens: hear, flock, cure · To what, where: summons, parts, son

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctors, none), 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 heard	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 summons	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 summons	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 queen	case
8	summons	summon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flocked	nsubj
10	flocked	flock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 summons	acl:relcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 parts	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 parts	det
13	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flocked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cure	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 cure	cc
16	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	18 cure	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 cure	aux
18	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cure	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	doctors = doctor			of the queen's summons	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of summon=Stimulus
2	flock	past	doctors = doctor	the queen's summons not said here	all parts		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent summon=Theme
3	cure	could	none	son			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source

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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