The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 79

While she lamented in this way, and everybody was as wet as if they had been dragged through a river, the Princess still thought of nothing but the ambassador, and just at this moment he appeared before her, with the King, and there was a great blowing of trumpets, and all the people shouted louder than ever.

Who acts: Queen, everybody, Princess, thunder, King, people · What happens: lament, be, drag, think, appear, shout · To what, where: way, hams, river, moment, great blowing

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, everybody, Princess, thunder), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 lamented	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lamented	nsubj
3	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 thought	advcl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lamented	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wet	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wet	cc
9	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 wet	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wet	cop
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 wet	advmod
12	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lamented	parataxis
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 dragged	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 dragged	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dragged	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dragged	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 dragged	aux:pass
18	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 wet	advcl
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 river	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 river	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dragged	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lamented	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 thought	nsubj
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 thought	advmod
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 nothing	case
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 thought	obl
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 ambassador	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ambassador	det
31	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nothing	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 moment	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 moment	cc
34	just	just	ADV	_	37 moment	advmod
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 moment	case
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 moment	det
37	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thought	obl:unmarked
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 appeared	nsubj
39	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 moment	acl:relcl
40	before	before	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 appeared	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 King	punct
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 King	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 King	det
45	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 blowing	nsubj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 was	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 was	cc
48	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	49 was	expl
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 blowing	cop
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 blowing	det
51	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 blowing	amod
52	blowing	blowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 appeared	ccomp
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 trumpets	case
54	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 blowing	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 shouted	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 shouted	cc
57	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 people	det:predet
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 people	det
59	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 shouted	nsubj
60	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 blowing	conj
61	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	60 shouted	xcomp
62	than	than	ADP	_	63 ever	case
63	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	61 louder	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lament	past	Queen		this way			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	everybody				wet property	tree rules
3	drag	past · perfect · passive		hams = ham	a river			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	the Princess			still; moment	of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	appear	past	thunder	this moment not said here		before Queen		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=Theme
6	is a	past	the King	a great blowing			of trumpets	tree rules
7	shout speech: express	past	all people				loud property	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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