The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 109

He made a sign for them to come near; they all bowed low in greeting.

Who acts: sword, brothers · What happens: make, come, bow · To what, where: sign, greeting

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, brothers), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 come	mark
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 come	mark
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	advcl
9	near	near	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 bowed	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bowed	nsubj
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 bowed	advmod
13	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
14	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bowed	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 greeting	case
16	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bowed	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	sword	a sign			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product
2	come	to-infinitive	brothers = brother			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bow	past	brothers = brother		greeting	all, low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in greeting=Location

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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