The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 20

The children, who saw someone coming in the distance, thought it was their dear father coming to them, and sprang to meet him very joyfully.

Who acts: children, reel, dear father · What happens: see, come, think, be, spring, meet · To what, where: someone, dear father, children, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, reel, dear father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 saw	obj
7	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 someone	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 distance	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 distance	det
10	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coming	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 father	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 father	cop
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
16	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 father	amod
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	ccomp
18	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 father	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 coming	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sprang	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sprang	cc
23	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 meet	mark
25	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sprang	xcomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 meet	obj
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 joyfully	advmod
28	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	25 meet	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the children	someone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus
2	come	gerund				in the distance	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location
3	think speech: other	past	the children not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	reel	children's dear father			tree rules
5	come	gerund	children's dear father not said here		children = child		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
6	spring	past	the children not said here				tree rules
7	meet	to-infinitive	the children not said here	king		joyfully property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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