The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 17
They obeyed at once and found him surrounded by all his court and men of state.
Who acts: thanks · What happens: obey, find, surround · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thanks), 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 obeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 obeyed | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 obeyed | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 found | ccomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 court | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 court | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 court | nmod:poss |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 men | cc |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 court | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 state | case |
| 16 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 men | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | thanks | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | past | thanks not said here | king | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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