The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 14

Then the child was to take the apple and be led into a room where the twenty men with the black dots were sitting in a ring.

Who acts: child, twenty men · What happens: be, lead, sit · To what, where: room, ring

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, twenty men), 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	6 take	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 apple	det
8	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 led	cc
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 led	aux:pass
11	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 take	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 room	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 room	det
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 led	obl
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 sitting	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 men	det
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 men	nummod
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sitting	nsubj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 dots	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dots	det
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dots	amod
22	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 men	nmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	aux
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 room	acl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 ring	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 ring	det
27	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sitting	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the child		then	take property	tree rules
2	lead	infinitive · passive	the child not said here	a room			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into room=Destination
3	sit	past · progressive	the twenty men with the black dots	a ring			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ring=Location

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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