More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 93

One of the royal invitations was brought to the Palace by the sea, and the servants carried it up to the old lord who still sat by his window, wrapped in his long white hair and weeping into the little river that was fed by his tears.

Who acts: sea, servants, old lord · What happens: bring, carry up, sit, wrap, weep, feed · To what, where: One, Palace, sea, old lord, long white hair, little river

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, servants, old lord), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 brought	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 invitations	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 invitations	det
4	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 invitations	amod
5	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	aux:pass
7	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Palace	det
10	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 carried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 carried	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 servants	det
17	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 carried	nsubj
18	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carried	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 carried	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 lord	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lord	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lord	amod
24	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carried	obl
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 sat	nsubj
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 sat	advmod
27	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lord	acl:relcl
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 window	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 window	nmod:poss
30	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sat	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wrapped	punct
32	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 sat	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 hair	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hair	nmod:poss
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hair	amod
36	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hair	amod
37	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wrapped	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 weeping	cc
39	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 hair	conj
40	into	into	ADP	_	43 river	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 river	det
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 river	amod
43	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 weeping	obl
44	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 fed	nsubj:pass
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 fed	aux:pass
46	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 river	acl:relcl
47	by	by	ADP	_	49 tears	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 tears	nmod:poss
49	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 fed	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · passive	the sea	One of the royal invitations	the Palace				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to palace=Destination
2	carry up	past	the servants	sea	the old lord				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to lord=Destination
3	sit	past	the old lord				still	by lord's window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location
4	wrap	participle	the old lord not said here			lord's long white hair			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in hair=Destination
5	weep	gerund	the old lord not said here			the little river			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into river=Recipient
6	feed	past · passive		the little river				by lord's tears	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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