The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 109

When all the people were gathered together, the King’s son stepped in among the crowd and cried:

Who acts: son · What happens: gather, step in, cry · To what, where: people, crowd

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 gathered	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 people	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gathered	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gathered	aux:pass
6	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 stepped	advcl
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 gathered	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gathered	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 King	case
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stepped	nsubj
13	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 stepped	advmod
15	among	among	ADP	_	17 crowd	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crowd	det
17	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stepped	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cried	cc
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stepped	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past · passive		all people		together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	step in	past	the King's son		the crowd		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among crowd=Trajectory
3	cry speech: express	past	the King's son not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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