The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 73

They had never before seen such a number of cockchafers, and the buzzing was so loud that the King was afraid he should be deafened by it.

Who acts: King, buzzing · What happens: see, be, deafen · To what, where: number, answer

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 (King, buzzing), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 before	advmod
4	before	before	ADV	_	5 seen	advmod
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 number	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 number	det
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cockchafers	case
10	cockchafers	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 loud	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 loud	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 buzzing	det
14	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 loud	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 loud	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 loud	advmod
17	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seen	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 afraid	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 King	det
20	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 afraid	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 afraid	cop
22	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 loud	advcl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 deafened	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 deafened	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 deafened	aux:pass
26	deafened	deafen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 afraid	ccomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 deafened	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	King	such number of cockchafers	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus
2	is	past	the buzzing		loud property	tree rules
3	is	past	the King		afraid property	tree rules
4	deafen	should · passive		answer	by buzzing	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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