The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 84

Now the king of the country was about to marry, and the young men about the court thronged the shoemaker’s shop to buy fine shoes to wear at the wedding.

Who acts: king, young men · What happens: be, marry, throng, buy, wear · To what, where: shop, fine shoes, wedding

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, young men), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 about	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 about	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 country	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 king	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 about	cop
8	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 marry	mark
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 about	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thronged	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thronged	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 men	amod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 thronged	nsubj
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 court	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 court	det
18	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 men	nmod
19	thronged	throng	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 about	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shoemaker	det
21	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shop	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 shoemaker	case
23	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thronged	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 buy	mark
25	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thronged	advcl
26	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shoes	amod
27	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 buy	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 wear	mark
29	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 buy	xcomp
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 wedding	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wedding	det
32	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wear	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king of the country			now	about property	tree rules
2	marry	to-infinitive	the king of the country not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	throng	past	the young men about the court	the shoemaker's shop				tree rules
4	buy	to-infinitive	the young men about the court not said here	fine shoes				tree rules
5	wear	to-infinitive	the young men about the court not said here		the wedding			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at wedding=Source

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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