The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 39

He had dressed himself in cool white clothes, and was passing through the hall on his way to the council chamber, when a number of young nobles suddenly appeared before him, and one amongst them stepped forward and spoke.

Who acts: king, number, one · What happens: dress, pass, appear, step forward, speak · To what, where: king, cool white clothes, hall · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, number, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dressed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	aux
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 dressed	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 clothes	case
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clothes	amod
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clothes	amod
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 dressed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 passing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 passing	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 passing	aux
12	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dressed	conj
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 hall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hall	det
15	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passing	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passing	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 chamber	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chamber	det
21	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chamber	compound
22	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 appeared	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 appeared	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 number	det
26	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 appeared	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 nobles	case
28	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 nobles	amod
29	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 number	nmod
30	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	31 appeared	advmod
31	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 appeared	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 stepped	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 stepped	cc
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 stepped	nsubj
37	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 one	nmod
39	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 appeared	parataxis
40	forward	forward	ADV	_	39 stepped	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 spoke	cc
42	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 stepped	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past · perfect	king	king	cool white clothes			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	pass	past · progressive	king not said here		the hall		on king's way; to the council chamber	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through hall=Initial_Location to chamber=Destination
3	appear	past	a number of young nobles			before king	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
4	step forward	past	one amongst nobles				forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	speak speech: other	past	one amongst nobles not said here					vn talk-37.5 «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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