The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 54

An hour later all the people in the palace were running to and fro and crying out: ‘Our king has come back!

Who acts: people, king · What happens: run, fro, cry out, come back

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, king), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hour	det
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 come	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 people	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 running	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 palace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 running	aux
11	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 later	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 running	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fro	cc
14	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 running	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 crying	cc
16	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 running	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 crying	compound:prt
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
20	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 king	nmod:poss
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	nsubj
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	run	past · progressive	all people in the palace		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fro	infinitive	all people in the palace not said here		tree rules
3	cry out speech: express	gerund	all people in the palace not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come back	present · perfect	Our king	late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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