The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 74
‘Young men came in streams, and there was such a crowding and a mixing together!
Who acts: Young men · What happens: come, be · To what, where: streams, crowding
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Young men), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 2 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 streams | case |
| 6 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crowding | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 was | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 crowding | cop |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 crowding | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 crowding | det |
| 13 | crowding | crowding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mixing | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mixing | det |
| 16 | mixing | mixing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crowding | conj |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Young men | streams | together property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stream=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | such crowding and a mixing | tree rules |
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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