The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 20

The men who were following stood still, amazed.

What happens: stand · To what, where: men

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stood	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stood	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stood	aux:pass
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stood	aux:pass
6	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	still	still	ADV	_	6 stood	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 amazed	punct
9	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stood	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · passive		the men			still		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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