The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 25

The king could hardly breathe with excitement lest it should make some noise, and bring all the people in the castle running to see what was the matter.

Who acts: king, Sword, people · What happens: breathe, make, bring, run, see, be · To what, where: noise, people, castle, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Sword, people), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breathe	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 breathe	aux
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 breathe	advmod
5	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 excitement	case
7	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breathe	obl
8	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	11 make	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 make	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 breathe	advcl
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 noise	det
13	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bring	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bring	cc
16	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 breathe	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 people	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bring	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 castle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 castle	det
22	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 people	nmod
23	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 people	acl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 running	xcomp
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 matter	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 matter	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 matter	det
29	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 breathe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	breathe	could	the king				with excitement; hardly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	should	Sword	some noise				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material noise=Product
3	bring	infinitive	the king not said here		all people	the castle		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument people=Destination
4	run	gerund	all people not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	see	to-infinitive	all people not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past		the matter				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.

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