The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 10

News of his approach had evidently been received, for all the inhabitants were at their doors and windows, and all the little spaniels had climbed upon the wall and gates to see him arrive.

Who acts: inhabitants, Prince · What happens: receive, be, climb, see, arrive, approach · To what, where: News, little spaniels, Prince

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants, Prince), 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	News	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 received	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 approach	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 approach	nmod:poss
4	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 News	nmod
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 received	aux
6	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	8 received	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 received	aux:pass
8	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 doors	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	17 doors	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 inhabitants	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 inhabitants	det
13	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 doors	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 doors	cop
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 doors	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 doors	nmod:poss
17	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 received	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 windows	cc
19	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 doors	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 climbed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 climbed	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 spaniels	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 spaniels	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 spaniels	amod
25	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 climbed	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 climbed	aux
27	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 received	conj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 wall	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wall	det
30	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 climbed	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gates	cc
32	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 wall	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 see	mark
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 climbed	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	obj
36	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 see	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	receive	past · perfect · passive		News of Prince's approach	evidently property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	past	all inhabitants		for inhabitants's doors and windows	tree rules
3	climb	past · perfect · passive		all little spaniels	upon the wall and gates	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive		Prince		tree rules
5	arrive	infinitive	Prince not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	approach		Prince			nom approach «act intransitive»: 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 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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