The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 93

One evening they were all seated round the table, eating their supper of bread and milk.

What happens: seat, eat · To what, where: man, supper

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seated	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seated	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seated	aux:pass
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 seated	advmod
6	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seated	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eating	punct
11	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 seated	advcl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 supper	nmod:poss
13	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eating	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 bread	case
15	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 supper	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 milk	cc
17	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 supper	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seat	past · passive		man			evening	round the table; all property	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
2	eat	gerund		man's supper of bread and milk					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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