The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 32

The king was at dinner with his court when the young man entered, and he signed to him to come near.

Who acts: king, young man, man · What happens: be, enter, sign, come · To what, where: dinner, king

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 (king, young man, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dinner	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dinner	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dinner	case
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 court	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 court	nmod:poss
8	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dinner	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 entered	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entered	nsubj
13	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 court	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 signed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 signed	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 signed	nsubj
17	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dinner	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 signed	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 signed	advcl
22	near	near	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dinner	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king		dinner	with king's court	tree rules
2	enter	past	the young man				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sign	past	man	king			vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	come	to-infinitive	man not said here			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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 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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