The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 148

At the foot of the great staircase they descended, and proceeded to the Queen’s apartments, though everyone had run together to see this marvel, till it was quite difficult to make a way through the crowd; and exclamations of wonder rose on all sides at the loveliness of the strange Princess.

Who acts: maidens, everyone · What happens: descend, proceed, run, see, be, make · To what, where: exclamations, foot, marvel, way, crowd, wonder rose

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, everyone), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 foot	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foot	det
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 descended	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 staircase	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 staircase	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 staircase	amod
7	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 foot	nmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 descended	nsubj
9	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proceeded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 proceeded	cc
12	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 descended	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 apartments	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Queen	det
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 apartments	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Queen	case
17	apartments	apartment	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 proceeded	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 run	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 run	mark
20	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 run	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 run	aux
22	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 proceeded	conj
23	together	together	ADV	_	22 run	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 run	advcl
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 marvel	det
27	marvel	marvel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 difficult	punct
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 difficult	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 difficult	expl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 difficult	cop
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 difficult	advmod
33	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 see	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 make	mark
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 difficult	csubj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 way	det
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 make	obj
38	through	through	ADP	_	40 crowd	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 crowd	det
40	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 make	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 exclamations	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 exclamations	cc
43	exclamations	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 descended	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 rose	case
45	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 rose	compound
46	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 exclamations	nmod
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 sides	case
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 sides	det
49	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 rose	nmod
50	at	at	ADP	_	52 loveliness	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 loveliness	det
52	loveliness	loveliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sides	nmod
53	of	of	ADP	_	56 Princess	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Princess	det
55	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 Princess	amod
56	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 loveliness	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 descended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	descend	past	maidens = maiden	exclamations of wonder rose on all sides at the loveliness of the strange Princess	the foot of the great staircase		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	proceed	past	maidens = maiden not said here			to the Queen's apartments	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	run	past · perfect	everyone			together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	everyone not said here	this marvel			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marvel=Stimulus
5	is	past				difficult property	tree rules
6	make	to-infinitive		a way	the crowd		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
7	exclaim			wonder rose on all sides at the loveliness of the strange Princess			nom exclamation «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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