The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 79

The hall was full to overflowing when the prisoner entered it, and all marvelled at the brightness of his face.

Who acts: hall, prisoner · What happens: be, overflow, enter, marvell · To what, where: hall, brightness

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hall, prisoner), 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 hall	det
2	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	SCONJ	_	6 overflowing	mark
6	overflowing	overflow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 full	advcl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 entered	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prisoner	det
9	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entered	nsubj
10	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 overflowing	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 entered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 marvelled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 marvelled	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 marvelled	advmod
15	marvelled	marvell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 brightness	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 brightness	det
18	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 marvelled	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 face	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 face	nmod:poss
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brightness	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hall			full property	tree rules
2	overflow	gerund	the hall not said here				tree rules
3	enter	past	the prisoner	hall			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
4	marvell	past	the hall not said here		the brightness of prisoner's face		tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/3/79/