English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 55

The people came in great numbers to see the sailors, because they were of different colour to themselves, and treated them civilly; and, when they became better acquainted, were very eager to buy the fine things that the ship was loaded with.

Who acts: people · What happens: come, see, be, treat, become, buy · To what, where: great numbers, sailors, people, fine things

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 numbers	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 numbers	amod
6	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 numbers	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sailors	det
10	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 colour	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 colour	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 colour	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 colour	cop
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 colour	case
16	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 colour	amod
17	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 themselves	case
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 colour	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 treated	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 treated	cc
22	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 treated	obj
24	civilly	civilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 treated	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 became	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 became	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 became	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 became	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 became	nsubj
30	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
31	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 acquainted	advmod
32	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 became	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 eager	punct
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 eager	cop
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 eager	advmod
36	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 became	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 buy	mark
38	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 eager	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 things	det
40	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 things	amod
41	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 buy	obj
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 loaded	nsubj:pass
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ship	det
44	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 loaded	nsubj:pass
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 loaded	aux:pass
46	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 things	acl:relcl
47	with	with	ADP	_	46 loaded	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the people			great numbers		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location
2	see	to-infinitive	the people not said here	the sailors				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sailor=Stimulus
3	is	past	people		people		of different colour	tree rules
4	treat	past	the people not said here	people			civilly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	become	past	people				acquainted property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	is	past	people not said here				eager property	tree rules
7	buy	to-infinitive	people not said here	the fine things				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
8	load	past · passive		the fine things				vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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