The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 106
On entering the throne-room, when the crowd saw that there was already someone on the royal seat, they broke out in cries of surprise and joy:
Who acts: crowd, someone, people, surprise · What happens: enter, see, be, break out, cry · To what, where: throne room, cries · 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 (crowd, someone, people, surprise), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 entering | mark |
| 2 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 saw | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 4 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 room | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 throne | punct |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entering | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 entering | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 saw | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 crowd | det |
| 10 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 was | mark |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 15 | already | already | ADV | _ | 16 someone | advmod |
| 16 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 seat | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 seat | det |
| 19 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 seat | amod |
| 20 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 someone | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 broke | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 broke | nsubj |
| 23 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 broke | compound:prt |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 cries | case |
| 26 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 broke | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 surprise | case |
| 28 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cries | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 joy | cc |
| 30 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 surprise | conj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | the crowd not said here | the throne room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the crowd | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past | someone | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | break out | past | people | cries of surprise and joy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cry=Location | ||||
| 5 | cry | surprise and joy | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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