The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 3
Now the fame of these wonders was noised abroad, and the people flocked in great numbers to see the three marvels, and the maiden who had won them; and among the sightseers came the king’s son, who would not go till everything was shown him, and till he had heard how it had all happened.
Who acts: people, maiden, sightseers, son, it · What happens: noise, flock, see, have, win, come · To what, where: fame, great numbers, three marvels, marvels, everything
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, maiden, sightseers, son), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 noised | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fame | det |
| 3 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 noised | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wonders | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 wonders | det |
| 6 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fame | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 noised | aux:pass |
| 8 | noised | noise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 8 noised | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flocked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flocked | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flocked | nsubj |
| 14 | flocked | flock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 noised | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 numbers | case |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 numbers | amod |
| 17 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flocked | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 flocked | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 marvels | det |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 marvels | nummod |
| 22 | marvels | marvel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 see | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 won | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 won | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 maiden | det |
| 26 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 won | nsubj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 29 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 flocked | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 won | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 came | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 came | cc |
| 33 | among | among | ADP | _ | 35 sightseers | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sightseers | det |
| 35 | sightseers | sightseer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 came | nsubj |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 noised | parataxis |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 king | det |
| 38 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 son | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 king | case |
| 40 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 came | vocative |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 go | punct |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 go | nsubj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 go | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 go | advmod |
| 45 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 son | acl:relcl |
| 46 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 49 shown | mark |
| 47 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 49 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 shown | aux:pass |
| 49 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 go | advcl |
| 50 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 shown | obj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 heard | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 heard | cc |
| 53 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 56 heard | mark |
| 54 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 heard | nsubj |
| 55 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 heard | aux |
| 56 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 came | conj |
| 57 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 61 happened | advmod |
| 58 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 happened | nsubj |
| 59 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 61 happened | aux |
| 60 | all | all | ADV | _ | 61 happened | advmod |
| 61 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 56 heard | advcl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 noised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | noise | past · passive | the fame of this wonders | now | abroad property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | flock | past | the people | great numbers | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the people not said here | the three marvels | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marvel=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the maiden | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | win | past | the maiden | marvels = marvel | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | come | past | the sightseers | the king's son vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not go | would | the king's son | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | show | past · passive | everything | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | |||||
| 9 | hear | past · perfect | maiden | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 10 | happen | past · perfect | it | all property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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