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The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 80

When they reached the palace everyone crowded round to welcome them as they went into the King’s great hall; and when the two brothers presented their little dogs nobody could decide which was the prettier.

Who acts: brothers, two brothers, little dogs · What happens: reach, crowd, welcome, go, present, decide · To what, where: everyone, brothers, great hall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, two brothers, little dogs), 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

marknsubjadvcldetcompoundobjacladvmodmarkadvclobjmarknsubjadvclcasedetnmod:posscaseamodoblpunctccadvmoddetnummodnsubjnmod:possamodnsubjnsubjauxparataxisnsubjcopdetccomppunctrootWhenSCONJtheyPRONreachedVERBtheDETpalaceNOUNeveryonePRONcrowdedVERBroundADVtoPARTwelcomeVERBthemPRONasSCONJtheyPRONwentVERBintoADPtheDETKingPROPN’sPARTgreatADJhallNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVtheDETtwoNUMbrothersNOUNpresentedVERBtheirPRONlittleADJdogsNOUNnobodyPRONcouldAUXdecideVERBwhichPRONwasAUXtheDETprettierADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenSCONJ_3 reachedmark
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 reachednsubj
3reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 presentedadvcl
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 everyonedet
5palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing6 everyonecompound
6everyoneeveryonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Tot3 reachedobj
7crowdedcrowdVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 everyoneacl
8roundroundADV_7 crowdedadvmod
9totoPART_10 welcomemark
10welcomewelcomeVERBVerbForm=Inf7 crowdedadvcl
11themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 welcomeobj
12asasSCONJ_14 wentmark
13theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs14 wentnsubj
14wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 welcomeadvcl
15intointoADP_20 hallcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Kingdet
17KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing20 hallnmod:poss
18’s'sPART_17 Kingcase
19greatgreatADJDegree=Pos20 hallamod
20hallhallNOUNNumber=Sing14 wentobl
21;;PUNCT_27 presentedpunct
22andandCCONJ_27 presentedcc
23whenwhenADVPronType=Int27 presentedadvmod
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 brothersdet
25twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card26 brothersnummod
26brothersbrotherNOUNNumber=Plur27 presentednsubj
27presentedpresentVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
28theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 dogsnmod:poss
29littlelittleADJDegree=Pos30 dogsamod
30dogsdogNOUNNumber=Plur33 decidensubj
31nobodynobodyPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg33 decidensubj
32couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin33 decideaux
33decidedecideVERBVerbForm=Inf27 presentedparataxis
34whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel37 prettiernsubj
35wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin37 prettiercop
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 prettierdet
37prettierprettyADJDegree=Cmp33 decideccomp
38..PUNCT_27 presentedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reachpastbrothers = brothereveryonevn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme
2crowdparticipleround propertyvn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3welcometo-infinitivebrothers = brothervn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4gopastbrothers = brotherthe King's great hallvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location
5presentpastthe two brothersvn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6decidecouldbrothers's little dogsvn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7ispastpretty propertytree 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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