The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 96

When they brought me here I found all the lords and ladies of my father’s court awaiting me under the same enchantment, while the people of lesser rank had been made invisible, all but their hands.

Who acts: plans, I, court · What happens: bring, find, await, make · To what, where: me, lords, same enchantment, people

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plans, I, court), 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	3 brought	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	advcl
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obj
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 brought	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 lords	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lords	det
10	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ladies	cc
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lords	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 court	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 court	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 father	case
17	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ladies	nmod
18	awaiting	await	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 court	acl
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 awaiting	obj
20	under	under	ADP	_	23 enchantment	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 enchantment	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 enchantment	amod
23	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 awaiting	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 made	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 people	det
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 made	nsubj:pass
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 rank	case
29	lesser	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 rank	amod
30	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 people	nmod
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 made	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 made	aux:pass
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 found	conj
34	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 made	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 hands	punct
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 hands	det
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 hands	cc
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 hands	nmod:poss
39	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 made	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	plans = plan		me	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
2	find	past	I	all lords and ladies of my father's court				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Topic
3	await	gerund	my father's court not said here	me		the same enchantment		tree rules
4	make	past · perfect · passive		the people of lesser rank			plans's hands obl; invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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