The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 150

He waved his hand, and five and twenty of his friends came trooping down the hill.

Who acts: shell, five · What happens: wave, come, troop · To what, where: hand, hill

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shell, five), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 came	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 twenty	cc
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 five	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 friends	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friends	nmod:poss
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 twenty	nmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waved	conj
14	trooping	troop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 came	advcl
15	down	down	ADP	_	17 hill	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hill	det
17	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trooping	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wave	past	shell	shell's hand		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	come	past	five			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	troop	gerund	five not said here		the hill	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down hill=Trajectory

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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