The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 39

When he reached the spot he found that certain foreigners of strange and outlandish appearance were about to make a proclamation to the assembled citizens, and he hastily pushed his way into the crowd until he was near enough to hear the words of the venerable old man who was their spokesman:

Who acts: Prince, certain foreigners, venerable old man · What happens: reach, find, be, make, assemble, push · To what, where: spot, proclamation, way, crowd, spokesman, venerable old man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, certain foreigners, venerable old man), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spot	det
5	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 about	mark
9	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 foreigners	amod
10	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 about	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 appearance	case
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 appearance	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 outlandish	cc
14	outlandish	outlandish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 strange	conj
15	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 foreigners	nmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 about	cop
17	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 found	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 about	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 proclamation	det
21	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 citizens	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 citizens	det
24	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 citizens	amod
25	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 proclamation	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pushed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 pushed	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 pushed	nsubj
29	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	30 pushed	advmod
30	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 way	nmod:poss
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pushed	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 crowd	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 crowd	det
35	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pushed	obl
36	until	until	SCONJ	_	42 hear	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 hear	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 hear	cop
39	near	near	ADV	_	40 enough	advmod
40	enough	enough	ADV	_	42 hear	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 hear	mark
42	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 pushed	advcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 words	det
44	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 hear	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	49 man	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 man	det
47	venerable	venerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 man	amod
48	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 man	amod
49	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 words	nmod
50	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 spokesman	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 spokesman	cop
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 spokesman	nmod:poss
53	spokesman	spokesman	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 man	acl:relcl
54	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Prince	the spot			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme
2	find	past	Prince				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	certain foreigners of strange appearance			about property	tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	certain foreigners of strange appearance not said here	a proclamation		to the assembled citizens	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset proclamation=Product
5	assemble	participle					vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	push	past	Prince	Prince's way	the crowd	hastily property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme into crowd=Destination
7	is	past	Prince			enough, hear property	tree rules
8	is a	past	the venerable old man	foreigners's spokesman			tree rules
9	word			the venerable old man			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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