The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 46

On they came, every man dressed in his finest clothes, and the crowd that was lining the road bowed their faces to the ground as they went by.

Who acts: pots, crowd · What happens: come, dress, line, bow, go by · To what, where: man, finest clothes, road, faces, ground

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pots, crowd), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 man	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 clothes	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 clothes	nmod:poss
10	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 clothes	amod
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 dressed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bowed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bowed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 crowd	det
15	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bowed	nsubj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lining	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lining	aux
18	lining	line	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 crowd	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 road	det
20	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lining	obj
21	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 faces	nmod:poss
23	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bowed	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bowed	obl
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 went	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bowed	advcl
30	by	by	ADP	_	29 went	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	pots = pot	every man			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dress	participle		every man not said here		man's finest clothes	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	line	past · progressive	the crowd	the road			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Destination
4	bow	past	the crowd	pots's faces	the ground		vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent face=Topic to ground=Recipient
5	go by	past	pots = pot				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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