The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 62

One day Owen sat at meat in the castle of Caerleon upon Usk, when a damsel on a bay horse entered the hall, and riding straight up to the place where Owen sat she stooped and drew the ring from off his hand.

Who acts: Owen, damsel · What happens: sit, enter, ride, stoop, draw · To what, where: meat, hall, place, ring, hand

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 (Owen, damsel), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl:unmarked
3	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 meat	case
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 castle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 castle	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Caerleon	case
11	Caerleon	Caerleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 castle	nmod
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 Usk	case
13	Usk	Usk	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Caerleon	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 entered	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 entered	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 damsel	det
17	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 entered	nsubj
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 horse	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 horse	det
20	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 horse	compound
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 damsel	nmod
22	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hall	det
24	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 entered	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 riding	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 riding	cc
27	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 entered	advcl
28	straight	straight	ADV	_	29 up	advmod
29	up	up	ADV	_	27 riding	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 place	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 place	det
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 riding	obl
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 sat	advmod
34	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 sat	nsubj
35	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 place	acl:relcl
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stooped	nsubj
37	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sat	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 drew	cc
39	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sat	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ring	det
41	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 drew	obj
42	from	from	ADP	_	45 hand	case
43	off	off	ADP	_	45 hand	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 hand	nmod:poss
45	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 drew	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Owen		meat	day	in the castle of Caerleon upon Usk	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at meat=Location
2	enter	past	a damsel on a bay horse	the hall				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination
3	ride	gerund	a damsel on a bay horse not said here		the place			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to place=Trajectory
4	sit	past	Owen					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stoop	past	damsel					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	draw	past	Owen not said here	the ring	Owen's hand			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from hand=Initial_Location

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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