The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 49

There were several giants, both young and old, in the hall, and they were all dancing round the princess.

Who acts: several giants, grains · What happens: be, dance

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (several giants, grains), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 giants	amod
4	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 young	punct
6	both	both	CCONJ	_	7 young	cc:preconj
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 giants	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 old	cc
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 young	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hall	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hall	det
13	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 young	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dancing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dancing	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dancing	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dancing	aux
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 dancing	advmod
19	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 were	advcl
20	round	round	ADP	_	22 princess	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 princess	det
22	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dancing	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	several giants			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dance	past · progressive	grains = grain					round the princess; all property	vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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