The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 90
‘Truly Guddhu is great’; and they crowded round again, closer and closer.
Who acts: Guddhu, people · What happens: be, crowd
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guddhu, people), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 great | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 great | advmod |
| 3 | Guddhu | Guddhu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 great | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 great | cop |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 great | punct |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 crowded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 crowded | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 crowded | nsubj |
| 10 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 great | conj |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 crowded | advmod |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 crowded | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 closer | punct |
| 14 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 crowded | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 closer | cc |
| 16 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 closer | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Guddhu | great, truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crowd | past | people | again | round property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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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