The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 29

Every evening the king and his nobles were served on golden plates and from golden cups; and the smaller people on silver plates and from silver cups; and each evening each guest was requested to keep the places and cups that they had used as a remembrance of the occasion.

What happens: serve, be, keep, use, remember · To what, where: king, golden plates, guest, places, occasion

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 served	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 served	nsubj:pass
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nobles	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nobles	nmod:poss
7	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 king	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 served	aux:pass
9	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 plates	case
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plates	amod
12	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 served	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cups	cc
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 cups	case
15	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cups	amod
16	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 plates	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 people	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 people	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
20	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 people	amod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 served	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 plates	case
23	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plates	compound
24	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 people	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cups	cc
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 cups	case
27	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cups	compound
28	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plates	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 requested	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 requested	cc
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 evening	det
32	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 requested	obl:unmarked
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	34 guest	det
34	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 requested	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 requested	cop
36	requested	request	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 served	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 keep	mark
38	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 requested	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 places	det
40	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 keep	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 cups	cc
42	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 places	conj
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 used	nsubj:pass
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 used	nsubj:pass
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 used	aux
46	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 places	acl:relcl
47	as	as	ADP	_	49 remembrance	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 remembrance	det
49	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 used	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 occasion	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 occasion	det
52	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 remembrance	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 served	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	past · passive	the king and king's nobles	golden plates and golden cups	evening	the smaller people on silver plates and silver cups obl	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	is	past · passive	each guest		evening	request property	tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive	the places and cups				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	use	past · perfect · passive	the places and cups			as a remembrance of the occasion	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as remembrance=Attribute
5	remember		the occasion				nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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