The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 30

Then he entered the cool, dark room where his father and mother were sitting, and said to them:

Who acts: king, father · What happens: enter, sit, say · To what, where: cool dark room, father · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 entered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entered	nsubj
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 room	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cool	punct
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 room	amod
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entered	obj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 sitting	advmod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mother	cc
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 father	conj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sitting	aux
15	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 room	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entered	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	enter	past	king	the cool dark room		then	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
2	sit	past · progressive	king's father and mother				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	king not said here		father		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient

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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