The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 82

Of course the result of the proclamation was that the river banks became more crowded than before; for all the princess's suitors from distant lands flocked to the spot, each hoping that he might be the lucky finder.

Who acts: river banks, princess suitors, each, suitor · What happens: be, flock, hope, result · To what, where: proclamation, lucky finder

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river banks, princess suitors, each, suitor), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 result	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 result	det
4	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flocked	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 proclamation	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 proclamation	det
7	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 result	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 became	cop
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 became	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 banks	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 banks	compound
12	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 proclamation	acl:relcl
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 crowded	advmod
15	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 became	xcomp
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 before	case
17	before	before	ADV	_	15 crowded	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 suitors	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	24 suitors	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 princess	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 princess	det
22	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 suitors	compound
23	's	's	PART	_	22 princess	case
24	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 flocked	nsubj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 lands	case
26	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lands	amod
27	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 suitors	nmod
28	flocked	flock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 spot	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 spot	det
31	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flocked	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hoping	punct
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	34 hoping	nsubj
34	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 flocked	advcl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 finder	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 finder	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 finder	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 finder	cop
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 finder	det
40	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 finder	amod
41	finder	finder	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hoping	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 flocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the river banks	the proclamation not said here	become, crowded property	tree rules
2	flock	past	princess suitors from distant lands		of the result of the proclamation; to the spot	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hope	gerund	each			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is a	might	suitor	the lucky finder		tree rules
5	result			the proclamation		nom result «phenomenon 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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