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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 88

The king of Ciccu’s country was watching for them from the top of a tower, and when he saw in the distance a cloud of dust, he ran down to the steps so as to be ready to receive them.

Who acts: king · What happens: watch, see, run down, be, receive, cloud · To what, where: top, arms, dust

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 (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

detnsubjcasenmod:posscasenmodauxcaseoblcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctccadvmodnsubjparataxiscasedetobldetnmod:unmarkedcasenmodpunctnsubjconjadvmodcasedetobladvmodmarkmarkcopadvclmarkxcompobjpunctrootTheDETkingNOUNofADPCiccuPROPN’sPARTcountryNOUNwasAUXwatchingVERBforADPthemPRONfromADPtheDETtopNOUNofADPaDETtowerNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVhePRONsawVERBinADPtheDETdistanceNOUNaDETcloudNOUNofADPdustNOUN,PUNCThePRONranVERBdownADVtoADPtheDETstepsNOUNsoADVasSCONJtoPARTbeAUXreadyADJtoPARTreceiveVERBthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 kingdet
2kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing8 watchingnsubj
3ofofADP_6 countrycase
4CiccuCiccuPROPNNumber=Sing6 countrynmod:poss
5’s'sPART_4 Ciccucase
6countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing2 kingnmod
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 watchingaux
8watchingwatchVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
9forforADP_10 themcase
10themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs8 watchingobl
11fromfromADP_13 topcase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 topdet
13toptopNOUNNumber=Sing8 watchingobl
14ofofADP_16 towercase
15aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 towerdet
16towertowerNOUNNumber=Sing13 topnmod
17,,PUNCT_21 sawpunct
18andandCCONJ_21 sawcc
19whenwhenADVPronType=Int21 sawadvmod
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 sawnsubj
21sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 watchingparataxis
22ininADP_24 distancecase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 distancedet
24distancedistanceNOUNNumber=Sing21 sawobl
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 clouddet
26cloudcloudNOUNNumber=Sing24 distancenmod:unmarked
27ofofADP_28 dustcase
28dustdustNOUNNumber=Sing26 cloudnmod
29,,PUNCT_31 ranpunct
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 rannsubj
31ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 sawconj
32downdownADV_31 ranadvmod
33totoADP_35 stepscase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 stepsdet
35stepsstepNOUNNumber=Plur31 ranobl
36sosoADV_40 readyadvmod
37asasSCONJ_40 readymark
38totoPART_40 readymark
39bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf40 readycop
40readyreadyADJDegree=Pos31 ranadvcl
41totoPART_42 receivemark
42receivereceiveVERBVerbForm=Inf40 readyxcomp
43themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs42 receiveobj
44..PUNCT_8 watchingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1watchpast · progressivethe king of Ciccu's countrythe top of a towerfor arms = armvn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for they=Theme
2seepastkingin the distance a cloud of dustvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3run downpastkingto the steps result; down propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to step=Result
4isto-infinitiveking not said hereready propertytree rules
5receiveto-infinitiveking not said herearms = armvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6clouddustnom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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