The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 37

They followed her into a long dark room, in which was a table covered with gold cups and baskets filled with dates and cocoa-nuts and all kinds of ripe yellow fruits, and the king and the prince sat upon cushions and were served by slaves, while the ministers, among whom she recognised her own brother, stood behind.

Who acts: food, long dark room, king, slaves, procession · What happens: follow, be, cover, fill, sit, serve · To what, where: procession, long dark room, table, baskets, cushions, own brother

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food, long dark room, king, slaves), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 room	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 room	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 room	amod
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 room	amod
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 table	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 table	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 table	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 table	det
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 room	conj
15	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 table	acl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 cups	case
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cups	compound
18	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 covered	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 baskets	cc
20	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 cups	conj
21	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 baskets	acl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 dates	case
23	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 filled	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 nuts	cc
25	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nuts	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 cocoa	punct
27	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dates	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 kinds	cc
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 kinds	det
30	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dates	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 fruits	case
32	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fruits	amod
33	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fruits	amod
34	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 kinds	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sat	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 sat	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 king	det
38	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sat	nsubj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 prince	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 prince	det
41	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 king	conj
42	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 followed	parataxis
43	upon	upon	ADP	_	44 cushions	case
44	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 sat	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 served	cc
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 served	aux:pass
47	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 sat	conj
48	by	by	ADP	_	49 slaves	case
49	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 served	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 ministers	punct
51	while	while	SCONJ	_	53 ministers	mark
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 ministers	det
53	ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 sat	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 recognised	punct
55	among	among	ADP	_	56 whom	case
56	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 recognised	obl
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 recognised	nsubj
58	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 sat	conj
59	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 brother	nmod:poss
60	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 brother	amod
61	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 recognised	obj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 stood	punct
63	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 recognised	conj
64	behind	behind	ADV	_	63 stood	advmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	food	procession	a long dark room and a table		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme into room=Trajectory
2	is a	past	a long dark room and a table	a table			tree rules
3	cover	participle		a table not said here		with gold cups and baskets	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cup=Theme
4	fill	participle		baskets not said here		with dates and cocoa nuts and all kinds of ripe yellow fruits	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with date=Instrument
5	sit	past	the king and the prince		cushions		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon cushion=Location
6	serve	past · passive	slaves				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
7	recognise	past	procession	procession's own brother			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
8	stand behind	past	procession not said here			behind property	vn assuming_position-50 «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 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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