The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 3

With the first sunbeam the watch came and opened the church, and not only was the colonel there, but the king in person, come to see what had happened to the sentinel.

Who acts: watch, king · What happens: come, open, not be, see, happen · To what, where: church, colonel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watch, 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 sunbeam	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sunbeam	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 sunbeam	amod
4	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 watch	det
6	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 opened	cc
9	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 church	det
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 colonel	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 colonel	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 colonel	advmod
15	only	only	ADV	_	18 colonel	advmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 colonel	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 colonel	det
18	colonel	colonel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	obl
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 colonel	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 come	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 person	case
25	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 king	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
27	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 come	advcl
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 happened	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 happened	aux
32	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 see	ccomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 sentinel	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sentinel	det
35	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 happened	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the watch			with the first sunbeam	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	past	the watch not said here	the church			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location church=Theme
3	not is a	past		the colonel	there		tree rules
4	come	infinitive	the king in person				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	the king in person not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	happen	past · perfect				to the sentinel	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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