The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 24

The next morning the countess summoned her subjects to meet in the courtyard of the castle, and told them that now that her husband was dead there was none to defend her lands.

Who acts: countess, husband, none · What happens: summon, meet, tell, be, defend · To what, where: subjects, courtyard, lands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countess, husband, none), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 summoned	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 countess	det
5	countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 summoned	nsubj
6	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 subjects	nmod:poss
8	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 summoned	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 meet	mark
10	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 summoned	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 courtyard	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 courtyard	det
13	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meet	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 castle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 castle	det
16	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 courtyard	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 summoned	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 dead	mark
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 dead	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 dead	mark
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 husband	nmod:poss
25	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dead	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dead	cop
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 told	ccomp
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dead	conj
30	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	29 was	nsubj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 defend	mark
32	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 none	acl
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 lands	nmod:poss
34	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 defend	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 summoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summon	past	the countess	countess's subjects			morning		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	meet	to-infinitive	the countess not said here			the courtyard of the castle			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the countess not said here		subjects = subject				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	is	past	countess's husband				now	dead property	tree rules
5	be	past	none			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	defend	to-infinitive	none not said here	countess's lands					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Beneficiary

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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