The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 83

And now the last crumb was gone, and the hungry beasts thronged round him, greedy for fresh prey.

Who acts: last crumb, hungry beasts · What happens: be, throng

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 (last crumb, hungry beasts), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 gone	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 gone	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crumb	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crumb	amod
5	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	cop
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thronged	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thronged	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beasts	det
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beasts	amod
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thronged	nsubj
13	thronged	throng	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	conj
14	round	round	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thronged	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 greedy	punct
17	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thronged	parataxis
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 prey	case
19	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 prey	amod
20	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 greedy	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the last crumb				now	gone property	tree rules
2	throng	past	the hungry beasts					round Iwanich	vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: 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 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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