The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 88

From that day things went from bad to worse, and every morning crowds presented themselves before the emperor, complaining of the robberies, murders, and other crimes that were committed nightly in the streets.

Who acts: morning crowds, other crimes · What happens: go, present, complain, be · To what, where: day things, crowds, streets

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morning crowds, other crimes), 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 things	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 things	nsubj
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 things	compound
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 bad	case
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 worse	case
9	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 presented	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 presented	cc
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 crowds	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crowds	compound
14	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 presented	nsubj
15	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 presented	obj
17	before	before	ADP	_	19 emperor	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 emperor	det
19	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 presented	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 complaining	punct
21	complaining	complain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 presented	advcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 robberies	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 robberies	det
24	robberies	robbery	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 complaining	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 murders	punct
26	murders	murder	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 robberies	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 committed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 committed	cc
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 crimes	amod
30	crimes	crime	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 committed	nsubj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 committed	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 committed	cop
33	committed	committed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	parataxis
34	nightly	nightly	ADV	_	33 committed	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 streets	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 streets	det
37	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 committed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past			day things		from bad; to worse	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from thing=Initial_Location from bad=Destination
2	present	past	every morning crowds	crowds = crowd		before the emperor		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
3	complain speech: other	gerund	every morning crowds not said here				of the robberies and murders	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	other crimes		the streets		committed, nightly 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 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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