The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 36

The fame of such holiness as this soon spread, and daily the citizens would flock to see him, eager to get his blessing, to watch his devotions, or to hear his teaching, if he were in the mood to speak.

Who acts: citizens, man · What happens: flock, see, get, watch, hear, be · To what, where: man, blessing, devotions, teaching, mood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (citizens, man), 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 fame	det
2	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 holiness	case
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 holiness	amod
5	holiness	holiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fame	nmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 spread	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 spread	det
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 spread	advmod
9	spread	spread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fame	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flock	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flock	cc
12	daily	daily	ADV	_	16 flock	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 citizens	det
14	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flock	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 flock	aux
16	flock	flock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fame	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 flock	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eager	punct
21	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flock	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 watch	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 blessing	nmod:poss
25	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 watch	punct
27	to	to	PART	_	28 watch	mark
28	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 eager	parataxis
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 devotions	nmod:poss
30	devotions	devotion	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 watch	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hear	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 hear	cc
33	to	to	PART	_	34 hear	mark
34	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 watch	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 teaching	nmod:poss
36	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hear	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 mood	punct
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 mood	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 mood	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 mood	cop
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 mood	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 mood	det
43	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hear	obl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 speak	mark
45	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 mood	acl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fame	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flock	would	the citizens			daily property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	the citizens not said here	man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	get	to-infinitive		man's blessing			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blessing=Stimulus
4	watch	to-infinitive		man's devotions			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devotion=Theme
5	hear	to-infinitive		man's teaching			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer teaching=Stimulus
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	man		the mood		tree rules
7	speak speech: other	to-infinitive					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	bless		man				nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent
9	devote		man				nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
10	teach		man				nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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