The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 54

When they were all assembled he chose a thousand of the finest bulls and cows, and drove them down to the river, followed by a great crowd wondering what would happen.

Who acts: Masilo, great crowd · What happens: assemble, choose, drive down, follow, wonder, happen · To what, where: people, thousand, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Masilo, great 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 assembled	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 assembled	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 assembled	aux:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 assembled	advmod
5	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 chose	advcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chose	nsubj
7	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thousand	det
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 chose	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 bulls	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bulls	det
12	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 bulls	amod
13	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thousand	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cows	cc
15	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bulls	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drove	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drove	cc
18	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chose	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drove	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	18 drove	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 river	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 river	det
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drove	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 followed	punct
25	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 river	acl
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 crowd	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 crowd	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 crowd	amod
29	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 followed	obl
30	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 crowd	acl
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 happen	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 happen	aux
33	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wondering	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 chose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	assemble	past · passive		people		all property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	choose	past	Masilo	a thousand of the finest bulls and cows			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme
3	drive down	past	Masilo not said here	people	the river		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to river=Trajectory
4	follow	participle		the river not said here		by a great crowd	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by crowd=Location
5	wonder speech: ask	gerund	a great crowd not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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