The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 71

Off rushed all his followers at once to do his bidding, and found a nice, tidy farmhouse, in front of which sat seven peasants, lunching on rye bread and drinking water.

Who acts: front, field · What happens: rush, do, find, sit, lunch, drink · To what, where: followers, bidding, nice tidy farmhouse, front, seven peasants, water

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (front, field), 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	Off	off	ADV	_	2 rushed	advmod
2	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 followers	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 followers	nmod:poss
5	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rushed	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 rushed	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rushed	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bidding	nmod:poss
11	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rushed	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 farmhouse	det
16	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 farmhouse	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nice	punct
18	tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 farmhouse	amod
19	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 front	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 front	case
22	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 sat	nsubj
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 front	acl:relcl
26	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 peasants	nummod
27	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sat	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lunching	punct
29	lunching	lunch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 found	advcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 bread	case
31	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bread	compound
32	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lunching	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 drinking	cc
34	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 lunching	conj
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drinking	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush	past		field's followers		off property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent follower=Theme at once=Trajectory
2	do	to-infinitive		field's bidding			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
3	find	past		a nice tidy farmhouse	front		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmhouse=Topic
4	sit	past	front	seven peasants			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location peasant=Theme
5	lunch	gerund				on rye bread	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on bread=Patient
6	drink	gerund		water			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
7	bid		field				nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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