The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 4

One beautiful spring morning the King was walking through his gardens with these three sons, gazing with admiration at the various fruit-trees, some of which were a mass of blossom, whilst others were bowed to the ground laden with rich fruit.

Who acts: King, some · What happens: walk, gaze, be, bow, lade · To what, where: gardens, mass, others, ground

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, some), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 morning	nummod
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	compound
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 walking	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 walking	aux
8	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 morning	parataxis
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 gardens	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 gardens	nmod:poss
11	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 walking	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 sons	case
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 sons	det
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 sons	nummod
15	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 walking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gazing	punct
17	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 walking	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 admiration	case
19	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gazing	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	25 trees	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 trees	det
22	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 trees	amod
23	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 trees	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 fruit	punct
25	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gazing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mass	punct
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 mass	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 some	nmod
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 mass	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mass	det
32	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 blossom	case
34	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mass	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 bowed	punct
36	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	39 bowed	mark
37	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 bowed	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 bowed	aux:pass
39	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 mass	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 ground	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 ground	det
42	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bowed	obl
43	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 ground	acl
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 fruit	case
45	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 fruit	amod
46	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 laden	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	the King			King's gardens	with this three sons	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Trajectory
2	gaze	gerund	the King not said here				with admiration; at the various fruit trees	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme
3	is a	past	some	a mass			of blossom	tree rules
4	bow	past · passive		others	the ground			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to ground=Recipient
5	lade	participle		the ground not said here			with rich fruit	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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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