The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 63

At sunset a large crowd assembled to watch the youth being led to the tower, and after his misdeeds had been proclaimed he was solemnly walled up.

Who acts: large crowd · What happens: assemble, watch, lead, proclaim, wall up · To what, where: youth, misdeeds, crowd

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 (large crowd), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 sunset	case
2	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 assembled	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crowd	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crowd	amod
5	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 assembled	nsubj
6	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 watch	mark
8	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 assembled	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watch	obj
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 led	aux:pass
12	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 youth	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 tower	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tower	det
15	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 led	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 proclaimed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 proclaimed	cc
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	23 proclaimed	mark
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 misdeeds	nmod:poss
20	misdeeds	misdeed	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 proclaimed	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 proclaimed	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 proclaimed	aux:pass
23	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 assembled	conj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 walled	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 walled	aux:pass
26	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	_	27 walled	advmod
27	walled	wall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 proclaimed	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 walled	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 assembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	assemble	participle	a large crowd		sunset		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	watch	to-infinitive	a large crowd not said here	the youth			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme
3	lead	gerund · passive		the youth not said here		to the tower	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: to tower=Patient
4	proclaim	past · perfect · passive		crowd's misdeeds			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	wall up	past · passive		crowd		solemnly property	tree rules

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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