The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 46
And after the church was finished greater numbers of people than ever flocked to see the palace and the church and vast gardens and magnificent halls.
What happens: finish, flock, see · To what, where: greater numbers, people, palace
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 finished | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 church | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 church | det |
| 4 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finished | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | aux:pass |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 numbers | amod |
| 8 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 finished | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 numbers | nmod |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 flocked | mark |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 flocked | advmod |
| 13 | flocked | flock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 people | acl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 flocked | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 church | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 church | det |
| 20 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 palace | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gardens | cc |
| 22 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gardens | amod |
| 23 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 numbers | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 halls | cc |
| 25 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 halls | amod |
| 26 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 numbers | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | greater numbers of people and vast gardens and magnificent halls | after the church | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: number=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | flock | participle | people not said here | ever | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the palace and the church | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |
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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