Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 75

Seats had been prepared behind a barrier for the King and his nobles, whilst the roofs and the windows were crowded with hundreds of people who had come to see the show.

Who acts: windows, people · What happens: prepare, be, come, see · To what, where: Seats, barrier, show

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (windows, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prepared	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prepared	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 prepared	aux:pass
4	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 barrier	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 barrier	det
7	barrier	barrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prepared	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 King	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 barrier	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nobles	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nobles	nmod:poss
13	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 King	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 roofs	punct
15	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	17 roofs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 roofs	det
17	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prepared	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 crowded	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 windows	det
20	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 crowded	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 crowded	cop
22	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 prepared	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 hundreds	case
24	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 crowded	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 people	case
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hundreds	nmod
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 come	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
29	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 people	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 come	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 show	det
33	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prepare	past · perfect · passive		Seats	a barrier for the King and King's nobles	whilst the roofs	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	the windows			with hundreds of people; crowded property	tree rules
3	come	past · perfect	people				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	people not said here	the show			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer show=Stimulus

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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 75

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 75