The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 99

So all the little demons came dragging so much silver and gold that it was something awful.

Who acts: little demons, gold · What happens: come, drag, be · To what, where: much silver, something

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little demons, gold), 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	_	6 came	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 demons	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 demons	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 demons	amod
5	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	dragging	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 came	xcomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 silver	amod
10	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dragging	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gold	cc
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 silver	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 something	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 something	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 something	cop
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 dragging	obl
17	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 something	amod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	all little demons		tree rules
2	drag	gerund	all little demons not said here	much silver and gold	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Theme
3	is a	past	gold	something	tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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