The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 105

In the meanwhile the people had found their King and his ministers with their feet in the air on the pavement, and they had gone into the palace to know how it had occurred.

Who acts: people, palace · What happens: find, go, know, occur · To what, where: King, meanwhile, palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, palace), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meanwhile	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meanwhile	det
3	meanwhile	meanwhile	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	aux
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 King	nmod:poss
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ministers	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ministers	nmod:poss
12	ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 King	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 feet	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feet	nmod:poss
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ministers	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 air	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 air	det
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 pavement	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pavement	det
21	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 air	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gone	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gone	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gone	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	aux
26	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 found	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 palace	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 palace	det
29	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gone	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 know	mark
31	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 gone	advcl
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 occurred	advmod
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 occurred	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 occurred	aux
35	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 know	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past · perfect	the people	people's King and Drakestail's ministers with people's feet	the meanwhile	in the air on the pavement	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic
2	go	past · perfect	people		the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial_Location
3	know	to-infinitive	people not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	occur	past · perfect	palace				vn occur-48.3-1 «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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