The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 37

In looking at pictures of musicians he saw their hands move and heard sweet sounds; there was a picture of a ball, and the Prince could watch the little dancing people come and go.

Who acts: prince, picture, people · What happens: look, see, move, hear, be, watch · To what, where: hands, sweet sounds, little dancing

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (prince, picture, 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	2 looking	mark
2	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 move	advcl
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 pictures	case
4	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looking	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 musicians	case
6	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pictures	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 musicians	acl:relcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	obj
11	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 heard	cc
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 move	conj
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sounds	amod
15	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 heard	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 move	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 picture	det
20	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 ball	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 ball	det
23	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 picture	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 watch	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 watch	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Prince	det
27	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 watch	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 watch	aux
29	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 move	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dancing	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dancing	amod
32	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 watch	obj
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 come	nsubj
34	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 dancing	acl:relcl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 go	cc
36	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 come	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 move	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	gerund				at pictures of musicians	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme
2	see	past	prince	pictures's hands			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus
3	move	present					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	past		sweet sounds			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
5	be	past	a picture of a ball		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	watch	could	the Prince	the little dancing			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancing=Theme
7	come	present	people	the little dancing not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dancing=Theme
8	go	present	people not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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