The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 14
One night there was a banquet, and cupbearers carried round gold and silver cups of sparkling wine, and singers with sweetest voices contended for the prize.
Who acts: cupbearers, singers · What happens: be, contend
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cupbearers, singers), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 carried | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 banquet | det |
| 6 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carried | cc |
| 9 | cupbearers | cupbearer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carried | nsubj |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gold | amod |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cups | cc |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cups | compound |
| 15 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gold | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wine | case |
| 17 | sparkling | sparkling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wine | amod |
| 18 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cups | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 contended | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 contended | cc |
| 21 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 contended | nsubj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 voices | case |
| 23 | sweetest | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 voices | amod |
| 24 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 singers | nmod |
| 25 | contended | contend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 carried | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 prize | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 prize | det |
| 28 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 contended | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cupbearers | carry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contend | participle | singers with sweetest voices | for the prize | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: 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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