The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 98

But in those days, as in these, beggars abounded, and through every village he passed they followed Houarn in crowds, mistaking him for a gentleman, because there were no holes in his clothes.

Who acts: beggars, Houarn, holes · What happens: abound, pass, follow, mistake, be · To what, where: village, Houarn

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggars, Houarn, holes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 abounded	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 days	det
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 abounded	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beggars	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 these	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 these	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 beggars	det
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 these	punct
10	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 abounded	nsubj
11	abounded	abound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 followed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 followed	cc
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 village	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 village	det
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 followed	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 passed	nsubj
18	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 village	acl:relcl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 followed	nsubj
20	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 abounded	advcl
21	Houarn	Houarn	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 followed	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 crowds	case
23	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 followed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mistaking	punct
25	mistaking	mistake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 abounded	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 mistaking	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 gentleman	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 gentleman	det
29	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mistaking	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 were	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 were	mark
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 were	expl
33	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 abounded	conj
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 holes	det
35	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 were	nsubj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 clothes	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 clothes	nmod:poss
38	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	35 holes	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 abounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	abound	past	this beggars			day		vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
2	pass	past	Houarn	every village not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme village=Trajectory
3	follow	past	beggars = beggar	Houarn	every village		in crowds	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent houarn=Theme through village=Trajectory
4	mistake	gerund	this beggars not said here	Houarn			for a gentleman	tree rules
5	be	past	no holes in Houarn's clothes		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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