The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 49
And so they passed through the streets, thronged with a wondering crowd, till they reached the castle.
Who acts: greyhounds · What happens: pass, throng, wonder, reach · To what, where: streets, castle
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 (greyhounds), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 passed | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 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 | 4 passed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thronged | punct |
| 9 | thronged | throng | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 crowd | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 crowd | det |
| 12 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 crowd | amod |
| 13 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thronged | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 reached | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thronged | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | greyhounds = greyhound | the streets | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through street=Location | ||||
| 2 | throng | past | greyhounds = greyhound not said here | with a wondering crowd | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with crowd=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | reach | past | greyhounds = greyhound | the castle | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |
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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