More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 25
A hundred of the Abbot's men dined each day with him in his refectory, and fifty knights in velvet coats and gold chains waited upon him daily.
Who acts: men, fifty knights · What happens: dine, wait · To what, where: hundred, refectory
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, fifty knights), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hundred | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 dined | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Abbot | det |
| 5 | Abbot | Abbot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 men | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Abbot | case |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dined | nsubj |
| 8 | dined | dine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dined | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 day | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 refectory | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 refectory | nmod:poss |
| 15 | refectory | refectory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dined | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 waited | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 waited | cc |
| 18 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 knights | nummod |
| 19 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 waited | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 coats | case |
| 21 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coats | compound |
| 22 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 knights | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 chains | cc |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chains | compound |
| 25 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 coats | conj |
| 26 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dined | conj |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 waited | obl |
| 29 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 26 waited | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dine | past | the Abbot's men | a hundred | Abbot's refectory | day | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | wait | past | fifty knights in velvet coats and gold chains | upon Abbot; daily property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
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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