The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 76

They could all speak quite well when they were in the street, but as soon as they came inside the palace door, and saw the guards in silver, and upstairs the footmen in gold, and the great hall all lighted up, then their wits left them!

Who acts: first, wits · What happens: speak, be, come, see, light up, leave · To what, where: street, palace door, guards, silver, great hall, first · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (first, wits), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speak	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 speak	advmod
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 speak	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 street	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 street	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 street	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 street	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 street	det
12	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speak	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 soon	advmod
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 saw	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 soon	advcl
20	inside	inside	ADP	_	23 door	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
22	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 door	compound
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 guards	det
28	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 saw	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 silver	case
30	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 guards	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 footmen	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 footmen	cc
33	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	35 footmen	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 footmen	det
35	footmen	footman	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 saw	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 gold	case
37	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 footmen	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 lighted	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 lighted	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 hall	det
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 hall	amod
42	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lighted	nsubj:pass
43	all	all	ADV	_	44 lighted	advmod
44	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 saw	conj
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 lighted	compound:prt
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 left	punct
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 left	advmod
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 wits	nmod:poss
49	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 left	nsubj
50	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 saw	conj
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 left	obj
52	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	could	first				all, well property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	first		the street			tree rules
3	come	past	first		the palace door			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside door=Location
4	see	past	first not said here	the guards	silver		soon property	tree rules
5	light up	participle · passive		the great hall			all property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
6	leave	past	first's wits	first		then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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