The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 112

Indeed, the affairs of the country fell into such disorder that at last the people broke out into open rebellion, and it was only the courage of the king, who continued to play the flute while swords and spears were flashing before the palace gate, that prevented civil war from being declared.

Who acts: affairs, people, Council, king, swords, palace gate · What happens: fall, break out, be, continue, play, flash · To what, where: such disorder, last, courage, flute, palace gate, civil war

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (affairs, people, Council, king), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 fell	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 affairs	det
4	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fell	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 country	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 affairs	nmod
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 disorder	case
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 disorder	amod
11	disorder	disorder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 broke	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 broke	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 broke	nsubj
17	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 disorder	acl:relcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 broke	compound:prt
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 rebellion	case
20	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rebellion	amod
21	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 broke	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 courage	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 courage	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 courage	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 courage	cop
26	only	only	ADV	_	28 courage	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 courage	det
28	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 king	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 courage	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 continued	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 continued	nsubj
34	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 king	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 play	mark
36	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 continued	xcomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 flute	det
38	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 play	obj
39	while	while	SCONJ	_	44 flashing	mark
40	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 flashing	nsubj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 spears	cc
42	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 swords	conj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 flashing	aux
44	flashing	flash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 play	advcl
45	before	before	ADP	_	48 gate	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 gate	det
47	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 gate	compound
48	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 flashing	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 prevented	punct
50	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 prevented	nsubj
51	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 gate	acl:relcl
52	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 war	amod
53	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 prevented	obj
54	from	from	SCONJ	_	56 declared	mark
55	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 declared	aux:pass
56	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 prevented	advcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the affairs of the country			into such disorder result; indeed property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into disorder=Result
2	break out	past	the people	such disorder	last	into open rebellion result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent that=Patient into rebellion=Result
3	is a	past	Council	the courage		of the king	tree rules
4	continue	past	the king				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	play	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the flute			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme
6	flash	past · progressive	swords and spears		the palace gate		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before gate=Location
7	prevent	past	the palace gate	civil war			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer war=Theme
8	declare speech: other	gerund · passive	the palace gate not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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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