The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 7

By-and-by a whisper went round that a beautiful lady who lived in the castle would be present at the feast, with twenty-four lovely maidens, her attendants.

Who acts: beautiful lady · What happens: go round, live, be · To what, where: castle, feast

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful lady), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 whisper	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 whisper	det
7	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	round	round	ADP	_	21 present	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 present	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lady	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lady	amod
13	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 present	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lived	nsubj
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lady	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 castle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 castle	det
18	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obl
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 present	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 present	cop
21	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 went	ccomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 feast	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 feast	det
24	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 present	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 maidens	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	31 maidens	case
27	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 four	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 twenty	punct
29	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 maidens	nummod
30	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 maidens	amod
31	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 attendants	punct
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 attendants	nmod:poss
34	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 maidens	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go round	past			by a whisper; with four lovely maidens and feast's attendants	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with maiden=Beneficiary
2	live	past	a beautiful lady	the castle		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location
3	is	would	a beautiful lady	the feast	present property	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 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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