The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 99

A chair covered with velvet had been made ready for the king, and he took his seat upon it, and, looking round upon the assembled company, he said:

Who acts: king · What happens: cover, make, take, look round, assemble, say · To what, where: chair, seat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chair	det
2	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj:pass
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 chair	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 velvet	case
5	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obl
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 made	aux:pass
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 made	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ready	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 seat	nmod:poss
18	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 said	advcl
25	round	round	ADV	_	24 looking	advmod
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 company	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 company	det
28	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 company	amod
29	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looking	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looking	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		a chair not said here	with velvet	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with velvet=Theme
2	make	past · perfect · passive		a chair	ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	take	past	king	king's seat	upon chair	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme
4	look round	gerund	king not said here		upon the assembled company; round property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon company=Theme
5	assemble	participle				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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