The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 79

The darkness of night was coming on, and when the father and mother saw such a splendid and stately stranger walk in, they were so startled that they both began to bow and curtsey.

Who acts: darkness, father, stranger · What happens: come on, see, walk in, startle, begin, bow · To what, where: father

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (darkness, father, stranger), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 darkness	det
2	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coming	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 darkness	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 coming	aux
6	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 coming	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 saw	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 father	det
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mother	cc
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 father	conj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 coming	conj
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 splendid	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 splendid	det
18	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 saw	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 walk	cc
20	stately	stately	ADV	_	21 stranger	advmod
21	stranger	strange	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 walk	nsubj
22	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 splendid	parataxis
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 walk	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 startled	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 startled	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 startled	aux:pass
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 startled	advmod
28	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 walk	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 began	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 began	nsubj
31	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	32 began	nsubj
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 startled	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 bow	mark
34	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 curtsey	cc
36	curtsey	curtsey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 bow	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 coming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come on	past · progressive	the darkness of night			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	the father and mother		splendid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	walk in	infinitive	stranger			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	startle	past · passive		father		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	begin	past	father			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	bow	to-infinitive	father not said here			vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	curtsey	infinitive	father not said here			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «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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