The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 8

So the attendant went into the ballroom and did as the king had bidden him, when, to his surprise, not one man, but twenty, stepped forward, all with black dots on their faces.

Who acts: attendant, king, Man · What happens: go, do, bid, step forward, surprise · To what, where: ballroom, Man, twenty

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 (attendant, king, Man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 attendant	det
3	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 ballroom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ballroom	det
7	ballroom	ballroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 did	cc
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 bidden	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bidden	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bidden	aux
14	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 did	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bidden	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 when	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 bidden	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 surprise	punct
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 surprise	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 surprise	nmod:poss
21	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bidden	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 man	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 man	advmod
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 man	nummod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 surprise	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stepped	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 stepped	cc
28	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 stepped	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 twenty	punct
30	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
31	forward	forward	ADV	_	30 stepped	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 all	punct
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 stepped	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 dots	case
35	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dots	amod
36	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 all	nmod
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 faces	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 faces	nmod:poss
39	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 dots	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the attendant		the ballroom		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into ballroom=Initial_Location
2	do	past	the attendant not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bid	past · perfect	the king	Man		to Man's surprise	tree rules
4	step forward	past	the attendant not said here	twenty		all obl; forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	surprise		Man				nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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