The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 20

At this the villagers came flocking to see what spoils the turtles had won, but, as they approached, each turtle seized some one by the wrist, exclaiming: “You are our spoils; you are our prisoners!”

Who acts: villagers, turtle, You · What happens: come, flock, see, spoil, win, approach · To what, where: this, turtles, one, prisoners · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (villagers, turtle, You), 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 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 came	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 villagers	det
4	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	flocking	flock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 came	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 flocking	xcomp
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 spoils	nsubj
10	spoils	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 see	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 turtles	det
12	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 spoils	obj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 won	aux
14	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 turtles	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seized	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 seized	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 but	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 approached	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 approached	nsubj
20	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seized	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 approached	punct
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	23 turtle	det
23	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seized	nsubj
24	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 one	det
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 seized	obj
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 wrist	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wrist	det
29	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 one	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 exclaiming	punct
31	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 seized	advcl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 spoils	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 spoils	punct
34	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 spoils	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 spoils	cop
36	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 spoils	nmod:poss
37	spoils	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 exclaiming	advcl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 prisoners	punct
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 prisoners	nsubj
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 prisoners	cop
41	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 prisoners	nmod:poss
42	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	parataxis
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	42 prisoners	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the villagers		this		tree rules
2	flock	gerund	the villagers not said here				tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	the villagers not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	spoil	present		the turtles			tree rules
5	win	past · perfect		the turtles not said here			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	approach	past	villagers = villager				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	seize	past	each turtle	some one		by the wrist	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
8	exclaim speech: express	gerund	each turtle not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
9	is in a quote	present	You			spoil property	tree rules
10	is a in a quote	present	you	our prisoners			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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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