The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 18

After that he went through several rooms full of gentlemen and ladies, all asleep, some standing, others sitting.

Who acts: Scarce, others · What happens: go, sit · To what, where: standing, several rooms

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarce, others), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 went	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 rooms	case
6	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rooms	amod
7	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rooms	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 gentlemen	case
10	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ladies	cc
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gentlemen	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asleep	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 asleep	det
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rooms	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 standing	punct
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 standing	det
18	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 others	punct
20	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 standing	conj
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 others	acl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Scarce	some standing and others		several rooms	after that		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through room=Initial_Location
2	sit	gerund	others not said here						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: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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