The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 66

The two bridegrooms came in as proud and grand as you please, and up they were walking to the altar rails, when the boards opened two yards wide under their feet, and down they went among the dead men and the coffins in the vaults.

Who acts: two bridegrooms, crowns, boards · What happens: come in, walk, open, go · To what, where: altar rails, feet, vaults

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two bridegrooms, crowns, boards), 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	3 bridegrooms	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bridegrooms	nummod
3	bridegrooms	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 proud	case
7	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grand	cc
9	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 proud	conj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 grand	obl
12	please	please	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 walking	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 walking	cc
15	up	up	ADP	_	18 walking	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 walking	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 walking	aux
18	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 rails	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rails	det
21	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rails	compound
22	rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 walking	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 opened	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 opened	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 boards	det
26	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 opened	nsubj
27	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 yards	nummod
29	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 wide	obl:unmarked
30	wide	wide	ADV	_	27 opened	advmod
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 feet	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 feet	nmod:poss
33	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 opened	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 went	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 went	cc
36	down	down	ADV	_	38 went	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 went	nsubj
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
39	among	among	ADP	_	42 men	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 men	det
41	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 men	amod
42	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 went	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 coffins	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 coffins	det
45	coffins	coffin	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 men	conj
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 vaults	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 vaults	det
48	vaults	vault	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 went	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come in	past	the two bridegrooms		as proud	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past · progressive	crowns = crown	the altar rails		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to rail=Destination
3	open	past	the boards	crowns's feet	wide property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location
4	go	past	crowns = crown	the vaults	among the dead men and the coffins; down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among man=Location

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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