The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 189

They proceeded through the streets, returning the salutations of all they met, great or small, and all the people turned and followed them, wondering who these noble ladies could be.

Who acts: guards, people · What happens: proceed, return, meet, turn, follow, wonder · To what, where: streets, salutations, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proceeded	nsubj
2	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 streets	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 streets	det
5	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 proceeded	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 returning	punct
7	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 proceeded	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 salutations	det
9	salutations	salutation	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 returning	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 salutations	nmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 met	nsubj
13	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 all	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 great	punct
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 salutations	parataxis
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 small	cc
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 great	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 turned	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 people	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 turned	nsubj
23	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 proceeded	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 followed	cc
25	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 turned	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 followed	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wondering	punct
28	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 followed	advcl
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 be	nsubj
30	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 ladies	det
31	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ladies	amod
32	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 be	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 be	aux
34	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wondering	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 proceeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	proceed	past	guards = guard		the streets	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	return	gerund	guards = guard not said here	the salutations of all		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salutation=Theme
3	meet	past	guards = guard			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	past	all people			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	follow	past	all people not said here	people		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	wonder speech: ask	gerund	all people not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	can	could				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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