The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 124

But on the way they stayed at the court of a king, and it happened that he was holding games, and giving prizes to the best runners, boxers, and quoit-throwers.

Who acts: peoples, it, king · What happens: stay, happen, hold, give · To what, where: way, games, prizes, best runners

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peoples, it, king), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 stayed	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 way	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stayed	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stayed	nsubj
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 court	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 court	det
9	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stayed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 court	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happened	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 happened	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 happened	nsubj
16	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stayed	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 holding	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 holding	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 holding	aux
20	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 happened	advcl
21	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 holding	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 giving	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 giving	cc
24	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 holding	conj
25	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 giving	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 runners	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 runners	det
28	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 runners	amod
29	runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 giving	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 boxers	punct
31	boxers	boxer	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 runners	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 throwers	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 throwers	cc
34	quoit	quoit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 throwers	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 quoit	punct
36	throwers	thrower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stayed	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stay	past	peoples = people			the way	at the court of a king	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	happen	past	it					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hold	past · progressive	king	games				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
4	give	gerund	king not said here	prizes	the best runners and boxers			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prize=Theme to runner=Recipient

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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