More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 113

When they arrived at the palace, they were immediately admitted on mentioning the nature of their business, and were ushered into a room where the princess and her suite were sitting.

Who acts: treasures, princess · What happens: arrive, admit, mention, usher, sit · To what, where: palace, treasures, nature, room

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasures, princess), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 arrived	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 admitted	advcl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 arrived	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 admitted	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 admitted	aux:pass
10	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	11 admitted	advmod
11	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	on	on	SCONJ	_	13 mentioning	mark
13	mentioning	mention	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 admitted	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 nature	det
15	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mentioning	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 business	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 business	nmod:poss
18	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nature	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ushered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ushered	cc
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ushered	aux:pass
22	ushered	usher	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 admitted	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 room	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 room	det
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ushered	obl
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 sitting	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 princess	det
28	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sitting	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 suite	cc
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 suite	nmod:poss
31	suite	suite	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 princess	conj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sitting	aux
33	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 room	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 admitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	treasures = treasure		the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	admit speech: other	past · passive		treasures = treasure		immediately property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	mention speech: other	gerund		the nature of treasures's business			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nature=Topic
4	usher	past · passive			a room		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»
5	sit	past · progressive	the princess and Princess's suite				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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