The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 8

Presently a splendid banquet was served, and the King and his daughters sat down to it, and as he always thought that there was some special meaning in everything, he said to the eldest:

Who acts: King, special meaning · What happens: serve, sit down, think, be, say · To what, where: splendid banquet, banquet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, special meaning), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	6 served	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 banquet	det
3	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 banquet	amod
4	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 served	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 served	aux:pass
6	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 sat	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 daughters	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughters	nmod:poss
13	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 King	conj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 served	parataxis
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 thought	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 thought	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nsubj
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 thought	advmod
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 was	mark
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thought	ccomp
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 meaning	det
28	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 meaning	amod
29	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 everything	case
31	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	29 meaning	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 served	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	nsubj
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 eldest	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 eldest	det
37	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 said	obl
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	serve	past · passive		a splendid banquet			presently property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	sit down	past	the King and king's daughters		banquet			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	king				always property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	be	past	some special meaning in everything			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	king				to the eldest	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to eld=Experiencer clause=Topic

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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