The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 22

The trumpets sounded, all the streets of the town were hung with flags and strewn with flowers, and the people ran in crowds to the great square before the palace.

Who acts: trumpets, people · What happens: sound, hang, run · To what, where: streets, crowds

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (trumpets, 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 trumpets	det
2	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sounded	nsubj
3	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hung	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 streets	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 streets	det
7	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hung	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 streets	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hung	aux:pass
12	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sounded	parataxis
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 flags	case
14	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hung	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 strewn	cc
16	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hung	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 flowers	case
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 strewn	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ran	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ran	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ran	nsubj
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sounded	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 crowds	case
25	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ran	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 square	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 square	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 square	amod
29	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ran	obl
30	before	before	ADP	_	32 palace	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 palace	det
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ran	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past	the trumpets					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	hang	past · passive		all streets of the town			with flags	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with flag=Instrument
3	run	past	the people		crowds	before the palace	to the great square result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to square=Result

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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