The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 7
When all was ready, the dwarfs, in new green suits, came bustling in, very happy and merry, and took their seats at the table.
Who acts: all, dwarfs · What happens: be, come, bustle, take · To what, where: seats, table
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, dwarfs), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ready | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 came | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dwarfs | det |
| 7 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 suits | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 suits | case |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 suits | amod |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 suits | amod |
| 12 | suits | suit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dwarfs | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 suits | punct |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | bustling | bustle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 came | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 bustling | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 happy | punct |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 happy | advmod |
| 19 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bustling | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 merry | cc |
| 21 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 happy | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 seats | nmod:poss |
| 26 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 took | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 table | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 table | det |
| 29 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the dwarfs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bustle | gerund | the dwarfs not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | past | the dwarfs not said here | dwarfs's seats | the table | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent seat=Theme at table=Asset |
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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