The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 16

Two women and three men were at supper when he entered, and silently made room for him to sit down by them.

Who acts: Two women, fellow · What happens: be, enter, make, sit down · To what, where: supper

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two women, fellow), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 women	nummod
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 supper	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 men	cc
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 men	nummod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 women	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 supper	cop
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 supper	case
8	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 entered	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 entered	nsubj
11	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 supper	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 room	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 room	cc
14	silently	silently	ADV	_	15 made	advmod
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 room	amod
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 supper	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 room	nmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sit	mark
20	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 room	acl
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 sit	compound:prt
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sit	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 supper	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Two women and three men	supper and made room for fellow		tree rules
2	enter	past	fellow			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	participle			silently property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	sit down	to-infinitive	Two women and three men not said here		by supper	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by they=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: «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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