--- title: The attendants all ran forward to thrust such impudent youngsters ou… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The attendants all ran forward to thrust such impudent youngsters outside the palace, but the boys slipped through their fingers like quicksilver, and entered a large hall, where the emperor was dining, surrounded by his whole court. Who acts: attendants, boys, emperor. A sentence of «The Violet Fai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/92/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Boys With the Golden Stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/) / 92 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 92 The attendants all ran forward to thrust such impudent youngsters outside the palace, but the boys slipped through their fingers like quicksilver, and entered a large hall, where the emperor was dining, surrounded by his whole court. **Who acts:** attendants, boys, emperor · **What happens:** run, slip, enter, dine, surround · **To what, where:** fingers, large hall This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants, boys, emperor), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:35:92 # text = The attendants all ran forward to thrust such impudent youngsters outside the palace, but the boys slipped through their fingers like quicksilver, and entered a large hall, where the emperor was dining, surrounded by his whole court. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 all all ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 forward forward ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 thrust thrust NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 impudent impudent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 youngsters youngster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 11 outside outside ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 quicksilver quicksilver NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 dining dine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | the attendants | | | | | to thrust *result*; all, forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to thrust=Result | | 2 | **slip** | past | the boys | | | boys's fingers like quicksilver | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **enter** | past | the attendants *not said here* | a large hall | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | | 4 | **dine** | past · progressive | the emperor | | | | | | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **surround** | participle | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/93/) - ↑ back to [The Boys With the Golden Stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/)