The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 99
As they all passed through the streets the people stared in wonder, for never before had any flock returned from the lake.
Who acts: flocks, people · What happens: pass, stare, not have, return · To what, where: flock, lake
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flocks, people), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 passed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 they | det |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 streets | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 streets | det |
| 7 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stared | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stared | nsubj |
| 10 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wonder | case |
| 12 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stared | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 had | advmod |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 had | advmod |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 stared | parataxis |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 flock | det |
| 19 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 flock | acl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 lake | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lake | det |
| 23 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 returned | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | flocks = flock | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stare | past | the people | in wonder; through the streets | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through street=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not have | participle | any flock | before property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Patient | ||||
| 4 | return | participle | any flock not said here | the lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lake=Initial_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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