The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 137

Here came the suitors numbered according to their arrival, and they were ranged in rows, six in each row, and they were so tightly packed that they could not move their arms.

Who acts: suitors · What happens: come, number, accord, range, pack, not move · To what, where: suitors, rows, arms

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (suitors), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 suitors	det
4	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 numbered	nsubj
5	numbered	number	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
6	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 arrival	case
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 according	fixed
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arrival	nmod:poss
9	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 numbered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ranged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ranged	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ranged	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ranged	aux:pass
14	ranged	range	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 rows	case
16	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ranged	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 six	punct
18	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 rows	appos
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 row	case
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 row	det
21	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 six	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 packed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 packed	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 packed	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 packed	aux:pass
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 packed	advmod
27	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	28 packed	advmod
28	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 move	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 move	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 move	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 move	advmod
33	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 packed	advcl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 arms	nmod:poss
35	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 move	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past			here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	number	past	the suitors			accord suitors's arrival	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	range	past · passive		suitors = suitor	rows		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	pack	past · passive		suitors = suitor		tightly property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination
6	not move	could	suitors = suitor	suitors's arms			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
7	arrive		suitors = suitor				nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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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