The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 13

‘Near these young men was a man richly dressed, who turned and went with me towards the castle, where all the dwellers were gathered in the hall.

Who acts: young men, man · What happens: be, dress, turn, go, gather · To what, where: man, castle, dwellers, hall

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young men, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 turned	punct
2	Near	near	ADP	_	8 man	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 men	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 man	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turned	nsubj
9	richly	richly	ADV	_	10 dressed	advmod
10	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 man	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turned	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 turned	nsubj
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 turned	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 went	obl
18	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 castle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 castle	det
20	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gathered	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 gathered	advmod
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 dwellers	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dwellers	det
25	dwellers	dweller	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gathered	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 gathered	aux:pass
27	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 castle	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 hall	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hall	det
30	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gathered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this young men			near a man	tree rules
2	dress	participle		a man not said here		richly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	past	a man				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	a man not said here		the castle	with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards castle=Initial_Location
5	gather	past · passive		all dwellers	the hall		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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