The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 32

But the greatest merry-making was in the king’s palace; there the best bands played and the best food was cooked; a crowd of people sat down to table, and all was fun and merry-making.

Who acts: greatest merry making, best bands, crowd, all · What happens: be, play, cook, sit down, make · To what, where: palace, best food

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greatest merry making, best bands, crowd, all), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 palace	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 making	det
3	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 making	amod
4	merry	merry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 making	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 merry	punct
6	making	making	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 palace	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 palace	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 palace	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 played	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 played	expl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bands	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 bands	amod
17	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 played	nsubj
18	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 palace	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cooked	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 food	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 food	amod
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cooked	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cooked	aux:pass
24	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 played	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 crowd	det
27	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 people	case
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 crowd	nmod
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 palace	advcl
31	down	down	ADP	_	30 sat	compound:prt
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 table	case
33	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fun	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fun	cc
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 fun	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 fun	cop
38	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sat	parataxis
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 making	cc
40	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 making	amod
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 merry	punct
42	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 fun	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 palace	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the greatest merry making		the king's palace		tree rules
2	play	past	the best bands		there		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cook	past · passive		the best food			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	sit down	past	a crowd of people			to table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	all			fun property	tree rules
6	make	gerund	all not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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