The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 42

The father went away, and the following day the king, accompanied by two friends, paid a visit to the three girls, who were sitting at supper.

Who acts: father, following day, three girls · What happens: go away, follow, accompany, pay, sit · To what, where: king, visit, supper

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, following day, three girls), 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 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 paid	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 paid	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 paid	nsubj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 accompanied	punct
13	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 king	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 friends	case
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 friends	nummod
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 accompanied	obl:agent
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
18	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 visit	det
20	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 paid	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 girls	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 girls	det
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 girls	nummod
24	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 paid	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sitting	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 sitting	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sitting	aux
28	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 girls	acl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 supper	case
30	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sitting	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go away	past	the father			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	accompany	participle		the king not said here			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	pay	past	the following day	a visit		to the three girls	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
5	sit	past · progressive	the three girls		supper		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at supper=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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