The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 23

That very day a gallows was built outside the town, and all the people crowded round to see the execution of the young man who had dared to beat the king’s daughter.

Who acts: people, young man · What happens: build, crowd, see, dare, beat, execute · To what, where: day, execution, daughter, young man

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 (people, young man), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 day	advmod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	nsubj:pass
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 gallows	det
5	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 day	conj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 built	aux:pass
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	outside	outside	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crowded	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 crowded	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 people	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 crowded	nsubj
16	crowded	crowd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 built	conj
17	round	round	ADV	_	16 crowded	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 crowded	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 execution	det
21	execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 man	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 execution	nmod
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 dared	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dared	aux
28	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 man	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 beat	mark
30	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 dared	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 daughter	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 king	case
34	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beat	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		that day and a gallows	outside the town	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	crowd	past	all people		round property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	see	to-infinitive	all people not said here	the execution of the young man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer execution=Stimulus
4	dare	past · perfect	the young man			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	beat	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	the king's daughter		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location daughter=Theme
6	execute			the young man		nom execution «act transitive»: of=patient

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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