The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 58
So while some embarked upon the sea, the others ran from kingdom to kingdom beating drums and blowing trumpets, and wherever a crowd collected they cried:
Who acts: others, crowd · What happens: embark, run, beat, blow, collect, cry · To what, where: kingdom, drums, trumpets
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 (others, crowd), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 ran | advmod |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 sea | mark |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 sea | nsubj |
| 4 | embarked | embark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sea | amod |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sea | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 others | det |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 kingdom | case |
| 13 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 kingdom | case |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 16 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 ran | advcl |
| 17 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 beating | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blowing | cc |
| 19 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 beating | conj |
| 20 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 blowing | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cried | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 cried | cc |
| 23 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 collected | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 crowd | det |
| 25 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 collected | nsubj |
| 26 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 cried | advcl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 cried | nsubj |
| 28 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | conj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embark | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | run | past | the others | kingdom | to kingdom result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Result | |||
| 3 | beat | gerund | the others not said here | drums | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blow | gerund | the others not said here | trumpets | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent trumpet=Patient | ||||
| 5 | collect | past | a crowd | wherever property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | past | others = other | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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