The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 82
Soon a crowd collected first to watch him and then to pat him, and the king and queen and princess came with the rest.
Who acts: crowd, king · What happens: collect, watch, pat, come · To what, where: crowd
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 collected | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crowd | det |
| 3 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 collected | nsubj |
| 4 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 collected | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 watch | mark |
| 7 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 collected | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 watch | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pat | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 pat | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pat | mark |
| 12 | pat | pat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 watch | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pat | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 came | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 queen | cc |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 king | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 princess | cc |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 king | conj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 collected | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 rest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rest | det |
| 25 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past | a crowd | first, soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | a crowd not said here | crowd | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pat | to-infinitive | a crowd not said here | crowd | then | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | come | past | the king and queen and princess | with the rest | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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