The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 22

The Princes were angry, and were beginning to complain that it was a trick, when suddenly the trumpets sounded and the youngest Prince came in.

Who acts: Princes, muslin, trumpets, youngest Prince · What happens: be, begin, complain, sound, come in · To what, where: trick

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princes, muslin, trumpets, youngest Prince), 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 Princes	det
2	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 angry	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 beginning	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 beginning	cc
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beginning	aux
8	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 angry	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 complain	mark
10	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 beginning	xcomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 trick	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 trick	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trick	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 trick	det
15	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 complain	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sounded	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 sounded	advmod
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	20 trumpets	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trumpets	det
20	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sounded	nsubj
21	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Prince	det
24	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 Prince	amod
25	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sounded	conj
27	in	in	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Princes		angry property	tree rules
2	begin	past · progressive	the Princes not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	complain speech: other	to-infinitive	the Princes not said here			vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	muslin	a trick		tree rules
5	sound	past	the trumpets			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	come in	past	the youngest Prince			vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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