The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 114

In an hour or two, so many were gathered round the cradle, that the child seemed in danger of being smothered; but the king, who was watching the fairies eagerly, was disturbed to see them looking grave.

Who acts: child, king, fairies · What happens: gather, seem, smother, watch, disturb, see · To what, where: many, danger, fairies, king

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, king, fairies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:2202): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 hour	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gathered	obl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 two	cc
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hour	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hour	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gathered	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gathered	aux:pass
10	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	round	round	ADP	_	13 cradle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cradle	det
13	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gathered	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 seemed	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 child	det
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gathered	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 danger	case
20	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	obl
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 smothered	mark
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 smothered	aux:pass
23	smothered	smother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 danger	acl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 disturbed	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 disturbed	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 disturbed	nsubj:pass
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 watching	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 watching	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 watching	aux
31	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 king	acl:relcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fairies	det
33	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 watching	obj
34	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	31 watching	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 watching	punct
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 disturbed	aux:pass
37	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gathered	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 see	mark
39	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 disturbed	xcomp
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 see	obj
41	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 see	xcomp
42	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 looking	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past · passive		many	hour	round the cradle	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	seem	past	the child			in danger	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in danger=Attribute
3	smother	gerund · passive		danger not said here			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»
4	watch	past · progressive	the king	the fairies		eagerly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme
5	disturb	past · passive		the king			tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive		fairies = fairy			tree rules
7	look	gerund	fairies = fairy not said here			grave property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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