The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 197

Now when the people in the town and palace heard music coming from the tower they were filled with amazement, and came to the King with the news that witchcraft must be going on in Martin’s Tower, for, instead of dying of starvation, he was seemingly making merry to the sound of music, and to the clatter of plates, and glass, and knives and forks; and the music was so enchantingly sweet that all the passers-by stood still to listen to it.

Who acts: people, music, witchcraft, passers, plates · What happens: hear, come, fill, go on, die, make · To what, where: music, tower, people, news, passers

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, music, witchcraft, passers), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 heard	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 heard	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 heard	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 palace	cc
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 town	conj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
12	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 music	acl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 tower	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tower	det
15	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coming	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 filled	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 filled	aux:pass
18	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 tower	acl:relcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 amazement	case
20	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 filled	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 King	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 King	det
26	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 news	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 news	det
29	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 going	mark
31	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 going	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 going	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 going	aux
34	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 news	acl
35	on	on	ADP	_	34 going	compound:prt
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 Tower	case
37	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Tower	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 Martin	case
39	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 going	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dying	punct
41	for	for	SCONJ	_	45 dying	mark
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dying	punct
43	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	45 dying	mark
44	of	of	ADP	_	43 instead	fixed
45	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 came	advcl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 starvation	case
47	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 dying	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 making	punct
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 making	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 making	aux
51	seemingly	seemingly	ADV	_	52 making	advmod
52	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 heard	advcl
53	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 making	xcomp
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 sound	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 sound	det
56	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 merry	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 music	case
58	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sound	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 clatter	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 clatter	cc
61	to	to	ADP	_	63 clatter	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 clatter	det
63	clatter	clatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obl
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 plates	case
65	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 clatter	nmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 glass	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 glass	cc
68	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	conj
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 knives	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 knives	cc
71	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 heard	obl
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 forks	cc
73	forks	fork	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 knives	conj
74	;	;	PUNCT	_	81 sweet	punct
75	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 sweet	cc
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 music	det
77	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 sweet	nsubj
78	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	81 sweet	cop
79	so	so	ADV	_	81 sweet	advmod
80	enchantingly	enchantingly	ADV	_	81 sweet	advmod
81	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heard	parataxis
82	that	that	SCONJ	_	91 listen	mark
83	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	85 passers	det:predet
84	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	85 passers	det
85	passers	passer	NOUN	Number=Plur	91 listen	nsubj
86	-	-	PUNCT	_	85 passers	punct
87	by	by	SCONJ	_	88 stood	mark
88	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	85 passers	acl
89	still	still	ADV	_	91 listen	advmod
90	to	to	PART	_	91 listen	mark
91	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	81 sweet	advcl
92	to	to	ADP	_	93 it	case
93	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	91 listen	obl
94	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the people in the town and palace	music			now	to the clatter of plates; knives and forks obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	music not said here			the tower			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tower=Initial_Location
3	fill	past · passive		people				with amazement	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with amazement=Instrument
4	come	past	the people in the town and palace not said here					to the King; with the news	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
5	go on	must · progressive	witchcraft	the news not said here		Martin's Tower			tree rules
6	die	gerund	the people in the town and palace not said here					of starvation	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=Causer
7	make	past · progressive	witchcraft					merry, seemingly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	the music					enchantingly, sweet property	tree rules
9	stand	participle		all passers not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	listen	to-infinitive	all passers		music		still		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme
11	clatter		plates						nom clatter «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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