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title: Everyone pressed round the unhappy man, and the guards were about to… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyone pressed round the unhappy man, and the guards were about to seize him, when the queen, who at first was dumb with surprise, sprang up from her throne. Who acts: guards, queen, Everyone. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependen
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 17

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Everyone pressed round the unhappy man, and the guards were about to seize him, when the queen, who at first was dumb with surprise, sprang up from her throne.

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**Who acts:** guards, queen, Everyone · **What happens:** press, be, seize, spring up · **To what, where:** Omar, throne

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, queen, Everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:35:17
# text = Everyone pressed round the unhappy man, and the guards were about to seize him, when the queen, who at first was dumb with surprise, sprang up from her throne.
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	29	nsubj	_	_
2	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	obl	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | round the unhappy man | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent round man=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | the guards |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seize** | to-infinitive | the guards *not said here* | Omar |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the queen |  |  |  |  | with surprise; dumb *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **spring up** | past | Everyone |  |  | queen's throne |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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