The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 12

From all the countries round came travellers to the Emperor’s town, who were astonished at the Palace and the garden.

Who acts: town · What happens: come, be · To what, where: travellers, countries, Palace

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town), 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	From	from	ADP	_	4 countries	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 countries	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 countries	det
4	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
5	round	round	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Emperor	det
10	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 town	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Emperor	case
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 astonished	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 astonished	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 astonished	cop
16	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 town	acl:relcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 Palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Palace	det
19	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 astonished	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 garden	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 garden	det
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Palace	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		travellers		all countries		to the Emperor's town; round property	tree rules
2	is	past	the Emperor's town			the Palace and the garden		astonished property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/48/12/