The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 43

The grand chamberlain and the lord high steward were awaiting her, and when the false bride stepped into the brilliantly lighted room, they bowed low, and said they had orders to inform his highness the moment she arrived.

Who acts: grand chamberlain, false bride, chamberlain, orders, bride · What happens: await, step, light, bow, say, have · To what, where: hall, lighted room, orders, highness, moment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grand chamberlain, false bride, chamberlain, orders), 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	3 chamberlain	det
2	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chamberlain	amod
3	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 awaiting	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 steward	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 steward	det
6	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 steward	compound
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 steward	amod
8	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chamberlain	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 awaiting	aux
10	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 awaiting	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bowed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bowed	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 stepped	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bride	det
16	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bride	amod
17	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stepped	nsubj
18	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 bowed	advcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	23 room	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 room	det
21	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	_	22 lighted	advmod
22	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 room	amod
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stepped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stepped	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bowed	nsubj
26	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 awaiting	conj
27	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bowed	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 bowed	conj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 said	ccomp
33	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 had	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 inform	mark
35	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 had	xcomp
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 highness	nmod:poss
37	highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 inform	obj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 moment	det
39	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 inform	obl:unmarked
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 arrived	nsubj
41	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 moment	acl:relcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 awaiting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	await	past · progressive	the grand chamberlain and the lord high steward	hall				tree rules
2	step	past	the false bride		the lighted room			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination
3	light	participle					brilliantly property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bow	past	chamberlain				low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	chamberlain not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	past	chamberlain	orders				tree rules
7	inform speech: other	to-infinitive	orders not said here	Becasigue's highness		moment		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent highness=Recipient
8	arrive	past	bride	the moment not said here				tree rules

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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