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The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 92

Imagine his terror when on entering he sees the King as red as a turkey cock, and all his ministers attending him standing sword in hand.

Who acts: you, Drakestail, ministers · What happens: imagine, enter, see, attend, stand · To what, where: terror, King, Drakestail, sword, hand

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 (you, Drakestail, ministers), 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

nmod:possobjmarkmarkadvclnsubjadvcldetobjcaseoblcasedetcompoundoblpunctccdet:predetnmod:possnsubjparataxisobjconjobjcasenmodpunctrootImagineVERBhisPRONterrorNOUNwhenSCONJonSCONJenteringVERBhePRONseesVERBtheDETKingPROPNasADPredADJasADPaDETturkeyNOUNcockNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJallDEThisPRONministersNOUNattendingVERBhimPRONstandingVERBswordNOUNinADPhandNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ImagineimagineVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 terrornmod:poss
3terrorterrorNOUNNumber=Sing1 Imagineobj
4whenwhenSCONJ_8 seesmark
5ononSCONJ_6 enteringmark
6enteringenterVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 seesadvcl
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 seesnsubj
8seesseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin1 Imagineadvcl
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Kingdet
10KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing8 seesobj
11asasADP_12 redcase
12redredADJDegree=Pos8 seesobl
13asasADP_16 cockcase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 cockdet
15turkeyturkeyNOUNNumber=Sing16 cockcompound
16cockcockNOUNNumber=Sing8 seesobl
17,,PUNCT_22 attendingpunct
18andandCCONJ_22 attendingcc
19allallDETPronType=Tot21 ministersdet:predet
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 ministersnmod:poss
21ministersministerNOUNNumber=Plur22 attendingnsubj
22attendingattendVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part1 Imagineparataxis
23himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 attendingobj
24standingstandVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part22 attendingconj
25swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing24 standingobj
26ininADP_27 handcase
27handhandNOUNNumber=Sing25 swordnmod
28..PUNCT_1 Imaginepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1imagineimperativeyou not said hereDrakestail's terrorvn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot terror=Theme
2entergerundDrakestail not said herevn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3seepresentDrakestailthe Kingas red; as a turkey cockvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus as red=Attribute
4attendgerundDrakestail's ministersDrakestailvn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Goal
5standgerundDrakestail's ministers not said hereswordhandvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in hand=Destination

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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