The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 45
The crowd of watchers turned towards the queen, expecting to see her stoop and give some token to the victor.
Who acts: crowd · What happens: turn, expect, see, give, stoop · To what, where: stoop, token, victor
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crowd | det |
| 2 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 watchers | case |
| 4 | watchers | watcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crowd | nmod |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 queen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 expecting | punct |
| 10 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 turned | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 expecting | xcomp |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 stoop | nmod:poss |
| 14 | stoop | stoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 give | cc |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 see | conj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 token | det |
| 18 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 victor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 victor | det |
| 21 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the crowd of watchers | towards the queen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards queen=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | expect | gerund | the crowd of watchers not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the crowd of watchers not said here | crowd's stoop | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stoop=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | the crowd of watchers not said here | some token | the victor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent token=Theme to victor=Recipient | |||
| 5 | stoop | crowd | nom stoop «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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