The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 87

Very soon she led her visitor into the great hall, where wine and fruit were always waiting, and on the table lay the magic knife, left there by Houarn.

Who acts: Groac’h, wine · What happens: lead, wait, lie, leave · To what, where: visitor, great hall, magic knife, table

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 (Groac’h, wine), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 led	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 led	nsubj
4	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 visitor	nmod:poss
6	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hall	amod
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 waiting	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 waiting	advmod
13	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waiting	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fruit	cc
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wine	conj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 waiting	aux
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 waiting	advmod
18	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 led	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lay	cc
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 table	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 table	det
23	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 led	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 knife	det
26	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 knife	amod
27	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 left	punct
29	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 lay	conj
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 left	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 Houarn	case
32	Houarn	Houarn	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 left	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past	Groac’h = groac'h	Groac’h's visitor	the great hall	soon property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme into hall=Destination
2	wait	past · progressive	wine and fruit			always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie	past		the magic knife	the table		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knife=Theme
4	leave	participle			there	by Houarn	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by houarn=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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