The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 49

When they were ready, one of the king’s special servants entered, and took them into a small hall, where dinner was laid, and this pleased them better than anything else.

Who acts: servants · What happens: be, enter, take, lay · To what, where: one, servants, small hall, dinner

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ready	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 entered	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 entered	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 servants	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 servants	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 servants	amod
12	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 entered	obl
13	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 entered	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 hall	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hall	det
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hall	amod
21	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 laid	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 laid	advmod
24	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 laid	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 laid	aux:pass
26	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 hall	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pleased	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 pleased	cc
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 pleased	nsubj
30	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 took	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 pleased	obj
32	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 pleased	advmod
33	than	than	ADP	_	34 anything	case
34	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 better	obl
35	else	else	ADV	_	34 anything	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	servants = servant			ready property	tree rules
2	enter	past		one		of the king's special servants	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of servant=Initial_Location
3	take	past		servants = servant	a small hall		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into hall=Destination
4	lay	past · passive		dinner			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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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