The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 57

Then there was a great clapping of hands, and everybody shouted, ‘By all means let us be after him.’

Who acts: great clapping, everybody, all, us · What happens: be, shout, mean, let, clap · To what, where: us, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great clapping, everybody, all, us), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 clapping	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clapping	amod
6	clapping	clapping	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 hands	case
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clapping	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shouted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shouted	cc
11	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 shouted	nsubj
12	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 all	punct
15	By	by	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 means	nsubj
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 shouted	ccomp
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 means	ccomp
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 be	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	a great clapping of hands		there	then	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express	past	everybody				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mean	present	all				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
5	be	infinitive	us not said here			after clapping	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	clap			hands			nom clapping «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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