The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 24

And trees were cut down, and great preparations made, and in a few days everybody knew what it was all for; and there was a crowd of old people pressing round the gates of the yard, where the young man spent the most of his day.

Who acts: everybody, crowd, old people, young man · What happens: cut down, make, know, be, press, spend · To what, where: trees, great preparations, gates, most

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, crowd, old people, young man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 cut	cc
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux:pass
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 cut	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 preparations	amod
9	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	nsubj:pass
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cut	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 knew	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 days	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 days	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 days	amod
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 knew	obl
17	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 knew	nsubj
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	conj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 knew	obj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 for	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 for	cop
22	all	all	ADV	_	23 for	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	19 what	acl:relcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 was	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 crowd	det
29	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 was	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 people	case
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 people	amod
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 crowd	nmod
33	pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 people	acl
34	round	round	ADP	_	36 gates	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 gates	det
36	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 pressing	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 yard	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 yard	det
39	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gates	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 spent	punct
41	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 spent	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 man	det
43	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 man	amod
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 spent	nsubj
45	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 yard	acl:relcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 most	det
47	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 spent	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 day	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 day	nmod:poss
50	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 most	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	cut down	past · passive		trees			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	make	participle · passive		great preparations			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	know	past	everybody			day	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	be	past	a crowd of old people		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	press	gerund	old people not said here		the gates of the yard		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent round gate=Trajectory
6	spend	past	the young man	the most of man's day			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Asset

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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