The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 11

When he passed through the gates all the people came out of their houses to stare in wonder, for never before had any flock returned from the lake.

Who acts: prince, people · What happens: pass, come out, stare, not have, return · To what, where: gates, houses, flock, lake

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 passed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	advcl
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 gates	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gates	det
6	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 people	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 houses	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 houses	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 houses	nmod:poss
14	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stare	mark
16	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 wonder	case
18	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stare	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 had	advmod
22	before	before	ADV	_	23 had	advmod
23	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stare	advcl
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 flock	det
25	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 flock	acl
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 lake	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lake	det
29	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 returned	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	prince		the gates		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gate=Location
2	come out	past	all people	people's houses			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result
3	stare	to-infinitive	all people not said here			in wonder	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wonder=Theme
4	not have	participle	all people not said here	any flock		before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Patient
5	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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