The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 187

So when the gaoler came with soldiers, and carried them down into a black dungeon which swarmed with toads and bats, and where they were up to their necks in water, nobody could have been more surprised and dismayed than they were.

Who acts: gaoler, black dungeon, nobody, soldiers · What happens: come, carry down, swarm, be, dismay · To what, where: soldiers, black dungeon, water

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gaoler, black dungeon, nobody, soldiers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gaoler	det
4	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 soldiers	case
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 carried	cc
10	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carried	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	10 carried	compound:prt
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 dungeon	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dungeon	det
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dungeon	amod
16	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 swarmed	nsubj
18	swarmed	swarm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dungeon	acl:relcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 toads	case
20	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 swarmed	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bats	cc
22	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 toads	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 necks	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 necks	cc
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 were	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 were	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 necks	cop
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 were	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 necks	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 necks	nmod:poss
31	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carried	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 water	case
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 necks	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 surprised	punct
35	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	40 surprised	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 surprised	aux
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 surprised	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 surprised	cop
39	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 surprised	advmod
40	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 necks	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 dismayed	cc
42	dismayed	dismay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
43	than	than	SCONJ	_	45 were	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 were	nsubj
45	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 dismayed	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the gaoler			with soldiers	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	carry down	past	the gaoler not said here	soldiers = soldier	a black dungeon		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	swarm	past	a black dungeon			with toads and bats	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with toad=Theme
4	is	past			water	to soldiers's necks	tree rules
5	is	could · perfect	nobody			surprised property	tree rules
6	dismay	past	the gaoler not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	be	past	soldiers = soldier				vn exist-47.1 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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