The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 27

A pot of hot gruel was instantly prepared, and carried over to the sick man, and as soon as the council which was sitting was over, the king and his ministers went to pay him a visit, bearing a message from the queen that she would follow a little later.

Who acts: pot, council, ministers, message · What happens: be, carry over, sit, go, pay, bear · To what, where: sick man, king, message

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot, council, ministers, message), 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 pot	det
2	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prepared	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 gruel	case
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gruel	amod
5	gruel	gruel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pot	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 prepared	cop
7	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	8 prepared	advmod
8	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 carried	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 carried	cc
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 prepared	parataxis
12	over	over	ADV	_	11 carried	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 man	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 council	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 council	cc
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 soon	advmod
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 council	advmod
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 council	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 council	det
23	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 sitting	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sitting	aux
26	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 council	acl:relcl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 over	cop
28	over	over	ADV	_	26 sitting	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 king	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sitting	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 went	cc
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 ministers	nmod:poss
34	ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 went	nsubj
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 carried	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 pay	mark
37	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 went	xcomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 pay	obj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 visit	det
40	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pay	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 bearing	punct
42	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 went	advcl
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 message	det
44	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bearing	obj
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 queen	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 queen	det
47	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 message	nmod
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 follow	mark
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 follow	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 follow	aux
51	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 bearing	advcl
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 little	det
53	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 later	obl:unmarked
54	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	51 follow	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	a pot of hot gruel			instantly, prepared property	tree rules
2	carry over	past			the sick man	as the council; over property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to man=Destination
3	sit	past · progressive	the council	the king			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past				over property	tree rules
5	go	past	king's ministers				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	pay	to-infinitive	king's ministers not said here		king		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient visit=Asset
7	bear	gerund	king's ministers not said here	a message		from the queen	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient
8	follow	would	message			late property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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