The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 16

They came in crowds, and the kettle was passed from hand to hand, and they were allowed to examine it all over, and even to look inside.

Who acts: people · What happens: come, pass, allow, examine, look · To what, where: crowds, kettle, hand, people

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 crowds	case
4	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 passed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 passed	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kettle	det
8	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 passed	aux:pass
10	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 hand	case
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 hand	case
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 allowed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 allowed	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 allowed	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 allowed	aux:pass
19	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 examine	mark
21	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 allowed	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 examine	obj
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 over	advmod
24	over	over	ADV	_	21 examine	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 look	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 look	cc
27	even	even	ADV	_	29 look	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 look	mark
29	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	conj
30	inside	inside	ADV	_	29 look	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	people		crowds		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crowd=Location
2	pass	past · passive		the kettle	hand	to hand	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from hand=Initial_Location to hand=Destination
3	allow	past · passive		people			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	examine not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here	kettle		over property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	look	to-infinitive	people not said here			inside property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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