The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 106

From the windows of the King’s palace many persons had seen Minnikin come sailing thither, and had stood to watch him; and they were all so astounded that they ran down to see what manner of man this could be who came sailing in a ship through the air.

Who acts: Minnikin, persons · What happens: see, come, sail, stand, watch, be · To what, where: many persons, windows, MINNIKIN, manner, ship

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Minnikin, persons), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 windows	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 windows	det
3	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 seen	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 palace	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 King	case
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 windows	nmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 persons	amod
10	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 seen	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	conj
15	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 come	xcomp
16	thither	thither	ADV	_	15 sailing	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stood	cc
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	aux
20	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 seen	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 watch	mark
22	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 stood	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 watch	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 astounded	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 astounded	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 astounded	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 astounded	cop
28	all	all	ADV	_	30 astounded	advmod
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 astounded	advmod
30	astounded	astound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 ran	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ran	nsubj
33	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 astounded	advcl
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 ran	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 ran	advcl
37	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	38 manner	det
38	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 see	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 man	case
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 manner	nmod
41	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 see	obj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 came	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 came	cop
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 came	nsubj
45	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 astounded	advcl
46	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 came	xcomp
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 ship	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 ship	det
49	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sailing	obl
50	through	through	ADP	_	52 air	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 air	det
52	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sailing	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect · passive		many persons	the windows of the King's palace		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	come	present	Minnikin				tree rules
3	sail	gerund	Minnikin not said here			thither property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	stand	past · perfect					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	watch	to-infinitive		MINNIKIN			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	is	past	persons = person			all, astound property	tree rules
7	run down	past	persons = person			down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see	to-infinitive	persons = person not said here	what manner of man			tree rules
9	is	could				come property	tree rules
10	sail	gerund			a ship	through the air	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Trajectory

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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