The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 95

These drums were put there so that the suitors of the princess might announce their arrival by beating on them, after which some one would come and take them to the king’s presence.

Who acts: suitors, one, drums · What happens: put, announce, beat, come, take, arrive · To what, where: drums, arrival, presence

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (suitors, one, drums), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 drums	det
2	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux:pass
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 put	advmod
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 announce	mark
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 announce	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 suitors	det
9	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 announce	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 princess	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suitors	nmod
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 announce	aux
14	announce	announce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	advcl
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arrival	nmod:poss
16	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 announce	obj
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 beating	mark
18	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 announce	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beating	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 come	obl
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 take	cc
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 come	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 take	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	35 presence	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 king	det
33	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 presence	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 king	case
35	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		this drums	there		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	announce speech: other	might	the suitors of the princess	drums's arrival			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrival=Theme
3	beat	gerund	the suitors of the princess not said here			on drums = drum	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location
4	come	would	some one				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	infinitive	some one not said here	drums = drum	the king's presence		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to presence=Destination
6	arrive		drums = drum				nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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