The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 16
But there was no time to be lost, and she led him right into the hall, where the king and his nobles were still sitting at the feast.
Who acts: joy, king · What happens: lose, be, sit · To what, where: hall, feast
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, king), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 led | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 lost | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lost | aux:pass |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 time | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 led | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 led | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 led | nsubj |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 led | obj |
| 14 | right | right | ADV | _ | 17 hall | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 hall | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hall | det |
| 17 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 led | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sitting | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 sitting | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sitting | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 nobles | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 24 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 king | conj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sitting | aux |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 sitting | advmod |
| 27 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 hall | acl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 feast | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 feast | det |
| 30 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sitting | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | to-infinitive · passive | joy not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | is | past | joy | the hall | lead property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sit | past · progressive | the king and man's nobles | the feast | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at feast=Location |
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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