The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 139

All the country people were standing round the King’s throne, and were crowded together in thick masses almost out of the windows to see the Princess receive the suitors; and as each one came into the room all his fine phrases went out like a candle!

Who acts: country people, Princess, one, fine phrases, King · What happens: stand, crowd together, see, receive, come, go out · To what, where: thick masses, Princess, suitors, room

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 (country people, Princess, one, fine phrases), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 people	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 people	compound
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 standing	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 standing	aux
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	round	round	ADP	_	11 throne	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 throne	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 King	case
11	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crowded	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 crowded	cc
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 crowded	aux:pass
15	crowded	crowd	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 standing	conj
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 crowded	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 masses	case
18	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 masses	amod
19	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 crowded	obl
20	almost	almost	ADV	_	24 windows	advmod
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 windows	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 windows	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 windows	det
24	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 crowded	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 see	mark
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 crowded	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Princess	det
28	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 see	obj
29	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 see	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 suitors	det
31	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 receive	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 went	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 went	cc
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 came	mark
35	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 one	det
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	nsubj
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 went	advcl
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 room	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 room	det
40	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	obl
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 phrases	det:predet
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 phrases	nmod:poss
43	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 phrases	amod
44	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 went	nsubj
45	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 standing	conj
46	out	out	ADP	_	45 went	compound:prt
47	like	like	ADP	_	49 candle	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 candle	det
49	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 went	obl
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	all country people			round the King's throne	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	crowd together	past · passive	all country people not said here		thick masses	out the windows; together property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: in mass=Destination
3	see	to-infinitive	all country people not said here	the Princess			tree rules
4	receive	infinitive	the Princess not said here	the suitors			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Theme
5	come	past	each one		the room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
6	go out	past	King's fine phrases			like a candle	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	phrase		King				nom phrase «communication transitive»: 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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