The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 53

The Ant-King, with his thousands and thousands of followers, had come during the night, and the grateful creatures had industriously gathered all the millet together and put it in the sacks.

Who acts: Ant · What happens: come, gather, put · To what, where: grateful creatures, millet, sacks

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ant	det
2	Ant	Ant	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 King	punct
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ant	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thousands	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 thousands	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 thousands	nmod:poss
8	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Ant	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thousands	cc
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Ant	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 followers	case
12	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thousands	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ant	punct
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	during	during	ADP	_	18 night	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gathered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gathered	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 creatures	det
22	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 creatures	amod
23	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gathered	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gathered	aux
25	industriously	industriously	ADV	_	26 gathered	advmod
26	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 come	conj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 millet	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 millet	det
29	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gathered	obj
30	together	together	ADV	_	26 gathered	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 put	cc
32	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 put	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 sacks	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sacks	det
36	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 put	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the Ant and youth's thousands and thousands of followers			night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gather	past · perfect · passive		the grateful creatures			industriously, together property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary millet=Theme
3	put	infinitive	the Ant and youth's thousands and thousands of followers not said here	millet	the sacks			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sack=Destination

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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