The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 27
All the farmers crowded round him, each offering a higher price than the last.
Who acts: farmers, each · What happens: crowd, offer · To what, where: higher price
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmers, each), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 farmers | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 farmers | det |
| 3 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crowded | nsubj |
| 4 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crowded | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 offering | punct |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 offering | nsubj |
| 9 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 crowded | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 price | det |
| 11 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 price | amod |
| 12 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offering | obj |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 last | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 offering | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crowd | past | all farmers | round ram | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | offer | gerund | each | a higher price | than the last | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent price=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 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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