The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 28

When they approached the capital, all the people came out to meet them with great joy and acclamation, and when the King reached his palace the Queen met him on the threshold; beside her stood the Prime Minister, holding a little cradle in his hands, in which lay a new-born child as beautiful as the day.

Who acts: face, people, King, Queen · What happens: approach, come out, meet, reach, stand, hold · To what, where: capital, face, palace, KING, threshold, Prime Minister

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (face, people, King, Queen), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 approached	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 approached	nsubj
3	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 capital	det
5	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 approached	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 approached	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 people	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 meet	mark
13	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 meet	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 joy	case
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 joy	amod
17	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meet	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 acclamation	cc
19	acclamation	acclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 joy	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 met	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 met	cc
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 reached	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 reached	nsubj
25	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 met	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 palace	nmod:poss
27	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reached	obj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Queen	det
29	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 met	nsubj
30	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 met	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 threshold	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 threshold	det
34	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 met	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 stood	punct
36	beside	beside	ADP	_	38 stood	mark
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 stood	nsubj
38	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Minister	det
40	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	41 Minister	compound
41	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 stood	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 holding	punct
43	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 stood	advcl
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 cradle	det
45	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 cradle	amod
46	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 holding	obj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 hands	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 hands	nmod:poss
49	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 cradle	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 lay	punct
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 which	case
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 lay	nsubj
53	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 stood	conj
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 child	det
55	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 born	amod
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 new	punct
57	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 child	amod
58	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 lay	obj
59	as	as	ADV	_	60 beautiful	advmod
60	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 child	amod
61	as	as	ADP	_	63 day	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 day	det
63	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 beautiful	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	past	face	the capital			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Theme
2	come out	past	all people			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	meet	to-infinitive	all people not said here	face		with great joy and acclamation	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Theme with joy=Instrument
4	reach	past	the King	KING's palace			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
5	meet	past	the Queen	KING	the threshold		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
6	stand	past	Queen	the Prime Minister			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer minister=Stimulus
7	hold	gerund	Queen not said here	a little cradle	KING's hands		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cradle=Theme in hand=Location
8	lie	past		a born child			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme
9	bear	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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