The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 16

And she beckoned him to follow her into a second hall whose floors and walls were formed of pearls, while down the sides there were tables laden with fruit and wines of all kinds; and as he ate and drank, the Groac’h talked to him and told him how the treasures he saw came from shipwrecked vessels, and were brought to her palace by a magic current of water.

Who acts: Lanillis, Houarn, Groac’h, treasures, magic current · What happens: beckon, follow, form, lade, eat, drink · To what, where: Houarn, Lanillis, second hall, floors, tables, treasures · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lanillis, Houarn, Groac’h, treasures), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 beckoned	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beckoned	nsubj
3	beckoned	beckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beckoned	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 follow	mark
6	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 beckoned	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 follow	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 hall	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hall	det
10	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 hall	amod
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obl
12	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	13 floors	nmod:poss
13	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 formed	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 walls	cc
15	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 floors	conj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 formed	aux:pass
17	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 hall	acl:relcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 pearls	case
19	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 formed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sides	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 sides	mark
22	down	down	ADP	_	24 sides	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sides	det
24	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 follow	obl
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 were	expl
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sides	acl:relcl
27	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 were	nsubj
28	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 tables	acl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 fruit	case
30	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laden	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wines	cc
32	wines	wine	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fruit	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 kinds	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 kinds	det
35	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 wines	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 ate	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 ate	cc
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 ate	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 ate	nsubj
40	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beckoned	parataxis
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 drank	cc
42	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 ate	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 talked	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Groac’h	det
45	Groac’h	Groac'h	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 talked	nsubj
46	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 ate	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 talked	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 told	cc
50	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 talked	conj
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 told	iobj
52	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	57 came	advmod
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 treasures	det
54	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 came	nsubj
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 saw	nsubj
56	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 treasures	acl:relcl
57	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 told	advcl
58	from	from	ADP	_	60 vessels	case
59	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	60 vessels	amod
60	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 came	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 brought	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 brought	cc
63	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 brought	aux:pass
64	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 beckoned	parataxis
65	to	to	ADP	_	67 palace	case
66	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 palace	nmod:poss
67	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 brought	obl
68	by	by	ADP	_	71 current	case
69	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	71 current	det
70	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 current	amod
71	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 brought	obl
72	of	of	ADP	_	73 water	case
73	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 current	nmod
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beckoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	beckon	past	Lanillis	Houarn				tree rules
2	follow	to-infinitive	Lanillis not said here	Lanillis		a second hall	down the sides	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme into hall=Trajectory
3	form	past · passive		floors and walls			of pearls	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	lade	participle		tables not said here			with fruit and wines of all kinds	tree rules
5	eat	past	Houarn					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drink	past	Houarn not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	talk	past	the Groac’h		Houarn			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
8	tell speech: assert	past	the Groac’h not said here		Houarn			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
9	see	past	Houarn	the treasures not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treasure=Stimulus
10	come	past	the treasures			shipwrecked vessels		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from vessel=Initial_Location
11	shipwreck	participle						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
12	bring	past · passive	a magic current of water			Lanillis's palace		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to palace=Destination

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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