The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 4

With him were his knights Owen and Kynon and Kai, while at the far end, close to the window, were Guenevere the queen and her maidens embroidering white garments with strange devices of gold.

Who acts: knights, maidens · What happens: be, embroider · To what, where: knights, Guenevere, white garments

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 (knights, maidens), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 him	case
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knights	obl
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knights	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knights	nmod:poss
5	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 Guenevere	nsubj
6	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 knights	appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Kynon	cc
8	Kynon	Kynon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Owen	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Kai	cc
10	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Owen	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 end	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 end	mark
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
15	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 end	amod
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Owen	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 close	punct
18	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 end	amod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 window	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 window	det
21	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 close	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knights	punct
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 Guenevere	cop
24	Guenevere	Guenevere	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 queen	det
26	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Guenevere	appos
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 maidens	cc
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 maidens	nmod:poss
29	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 Guenevere	conj
30	embroidering	embroider	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 maidens	acl
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 garments	amod
32	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 embroidering	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 devices	case
34	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 devices	amod
35	devices	device	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 embroidering	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 gold	case
37	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 devices	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 Guenevere	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		cushion's knights	with cushion	tree rules
2	is a	past	cushion's knights	Guenevere and Kai's maidens		tree rules
3	embroider	gerund	Kai's maidens not said here	white garments	with strange devices of gold	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent garment=Destination with device=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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