The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 95

‘Your counsel is good,’ said the king, who made his feast and prepared for his ball; and all the people of the countryside were present, and the Shifty Lad came with them.

Who acts: counsel, king, people, Shifty Lad · What happens: be, say, make, prepare, come · To what, where: king, feast · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (counsel, king, people, Shifty Lad), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 counsel	nmod:poss
3	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 good	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 king	acl:relcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feast	nmod:poss
15	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 prepared	cc
17	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 ball	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 ball	nmod:poss
20	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 prepared	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 present	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 present	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 people	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 people	det
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 present	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 countryside	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 countryside	det
28	countryside	countryside	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 people	nmod
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 present	cop
30	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 came	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Lad	det
34	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Lad	amod
35	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 present	conj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 came	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your counsel		good property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the king		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic
3	make	past	the king	king's feast		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Product
4	prepare	past	the king not said here		for king's ball	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for ball=Beneficiary
5	is	past	all people of the countryside		present property	tree rules
6	come	past	the Shifty Lad		with people	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP 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 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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