The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 10

Behind them came a great rabble of men on foot armed with all sorts of weapons, and last of all was the king with his attendants, very nervous and ill at ease.

Who acts: ankles · What happens: come, be, sort · To what, where: great rabble, weapons

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (ankles), 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	Behind	behind	ADP	_	3 came	mark
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rabble	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rabble	amod
6	rabble	rabble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 men	case
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rabble	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 foot	case
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 men	nmod
11	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 sorts	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 sorts	det
14	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 armed	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 weapons	case
16	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sorts	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 last	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 last	cc
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 king	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 king	det
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 king	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 last	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 attendants	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 attendants	nmod:poss
27	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 last	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 nervous	punct
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 nervous	advmod
30	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 last	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ill	cc
32	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 nervous	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 ease	case
34	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nervous	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	ankles = ankle	a great rabble of men on foot		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rabble=Theme
2	is	past			of all king	tree rules
3	sort			weapons		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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