The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 107

The chamberlain went among the guests, and soon found such a man, but just as he was going to arrest him and bring him before the king his eye fell on another with the same mark, and another, and another, till he had counted twenty--besides the Wise Man--on whose face were found spots.

Who acts: chamberlain, man, eye · What happens: go, find, arrest, bring, fall, count · To what, where: man, king, another, twenty, spots, face

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamberlain, man, eye), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chamberlain	det
2	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 guests	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guests	det
6	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 found	advmod
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 man	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 going	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 going	cc
16	just	just	ADV	_	20 going	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 going	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 going	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 going	aux
20	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 arrest	mark
22	arrest	arrest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 going	xcomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 arrest	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bring	cc
25	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 arrest	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bring	obj
27	before	before	ADP	_	29 king	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 king	det
29	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bring	obl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eye	nmod:poss
31	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	nsubj
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 king	acl:relcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 another	case
34	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	32 fell	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 mark	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 mark	det
37	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 mark	amod
38	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 another	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 another	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 another	cc
41	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 went	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 another	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 another	cc
44	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	41 another	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 counted	punct
46	till	till	SCONJ	_	49 counted	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 counted	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 counted	aux
49	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 went	parataxis
50	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 counted	obj
51	--	--	PUNCT	_	55 Man	punct
52	besides	besides	ADP	_	55 Man	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Man	det
54	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 Man	amod
55	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 counted	obl
56	--	--	PUNCT	_	61 found	punct
57	on	on	ADP	_	59 face	case
58	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	59 face	nmod:poss
59	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 found	obl
60	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 found	aux:pass
61	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 counted	advcl
62	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 found	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the chamberlain				among the guests	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among guest=Location
2	find	past	the chamberlain not said here	such man			soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
3	go	past · progressive	man					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	arrest	to-infinitive	man not said here	man				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	bring	infinitive	man not said here	man		before the king		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before king=Destination
6	fall	past	man's eye	the king not said here	another			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient king=Result
7	count	past · perfect	man	twenty			besides the Wise Man	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twenty=Theme
8	find	past · passive	man not said here	spots	face			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: spot=Topic

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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