The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 48

So off they rode, and came to an inn where were a number of people who, as soon as they saw the two golden lads, began to laugh and jeer at them.

Who acts: children · What happens: ride, come, be, see, begin, laugh · To what, where: inn, number, two golden lads

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 rode	advmod
2	off	off	ADP	_	4 rode	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 inn	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 inn	det
10	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 number	advmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 number	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 number	det
14	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 inn	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 people	case
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 number	nmod
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 people	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 soon	punct
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 soon	advmod
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 who	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 saw	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 soon	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lads	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 lads	nummod
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lads	amod
27	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 saw	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saw	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 laugh	mark
31	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 jeer	cc
33	jeer	jeer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 laugh	conj
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 jeer	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past	children = child				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	children = child not said here		a inn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location
3	is a	past		a number		of people	tree rules
4	see	past	children = child	the two golden lads			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lad=Stimulus
5	begin	past	children = child not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	laugh	to-infinitive	children = child not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	jeer	infinitive	children = child not said here			at children = child	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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