The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 54

The King, quite provoked, followed him hastily, but they had hardly taken their places facing one another, and the whole Court had only just had time to rush out upon the balconies to watch what was going on, when suddenly the sun became as red as blood, and it was so dark that they could scarcely see at all.

Who acts: King, spurs, places, whole Court, sun · What happens: provoke, follow, take, face, have, rush out · To what, where: King, Dwarf, places, one, balconies, all

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 (King, spurs, places, whole Court), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 followed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 provoked	punct
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 provoked	advmod
5	provoked	provoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 King	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 King	punct
7	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 followed	obj
9	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	7 followed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taken	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 taken	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taken	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 taken	advmod
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 followed	parataxis
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 places	nmod:poss
17	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 taken	obj
18	facing	face	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 places	acl
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 facing	obj
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	fixed
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Court	det
24	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Court	amod
25	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	conj
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 had	advmod
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 had	advmod
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 had	advcl
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 rush	mark
32	rush	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 time	acl
33	out	out	ADV	_	32 rush	advmod
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 balconies	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 balconies	det
36	balconies	balcony	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 rush	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 watch	mark
38	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 rush	advcl
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 going	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 going	aux
41	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 watch	ccomp
42	on	on	ADP	_	41 going	compound:prt
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 became	punct
44	when	when	SCONJ	_	48 became	mark
45	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	48 became	advmod
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 sun	det
47	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 became	nsubj
48	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 had	conj
49	as	as	ADV	_	50 red	advmod
50	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 became	xcomp
51	as	as	ADP	_	52 blood	case
52	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 red	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 dark	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 dark	cc
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 dark	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 dark	cop
57	so	so	ADV	_	58 dark	advmod
58	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 became	parataxis
59	that	that	SCONJ	_	63 see	mark
60	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 see	nsubj
61	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 see	aux
62	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	63 see	advmod
63	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 dark	advcl
64	at	at	ADP	_	65 all	case
65	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	63 see	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provoke	participle		the King not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	follow	past	the King	Dwarf			hastily property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	take	past · perfect	spurs = spur	spurs's places			hardly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	face	gerund	spurs's places not said here	one				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Destination
5	have	past	the whole Court					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	have	past	the whole Court not said here			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	rush out	to-infinitive	the whole Court not said here		the balconies		out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon balcony=Trajectory
8	watch	to-infinitive	the whole Court not said here					tree rules
9	go on	past · progressive						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	become	past	the sun				red, suddenly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
11	is	past	sun				dark property	tree rules
12	see	could	spurs = spur		all		scarcely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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