The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 133
Outside the town a great scaffold had been erected, and all round were standing the soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of people.
Who acts: all · What happens: erect, stand · To what, where: great scaffold, soldiers
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all), 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 | Outside | outside | ADP | _ | 3 town | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 town | det |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 erected | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 scaffold | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scaffold | amod |
| 6 | scaffold | scaffold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 erected | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 erected | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 erected | aux:pass |
| 9 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 standing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 standing | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 standing | nsubj |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 all | advmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 standing | aux |
| 15 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 erected | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 soldiers | det |
| 17 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 standing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hundreds | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hundreds | cc |
| 20 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 erected | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 thousands | case |
| 22 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hundreds | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 thousands | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 erected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | erect | past · perfect · passive | a great scaffold | outside the town; hundreds of thousands of people obl | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | all | the soldiers | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soldier=Stimulus |
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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