The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 131

But in that place there were some Christian folk who had been carried off, and they had been sitting in the chamber which was next to that of the Prince, and had heard how a woman had been in there who had wept and called on him two nights running, and they told the Prince of this.

Who acts: Christian folk, places, chamber, woman, two nights · What happens: be, carry off, sit, hear, weep, call · To what, where: place, Christian folk, chamber, two nights, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian folk, places, chamber, woman), 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 were	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 place	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sitting	advcl
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 folk	det
8	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 folk	amod
9	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 carried	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 carried	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 carried	aux:pass
13	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 folk	acl:relcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 carried	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sitting	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sitting	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sitting	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sitting	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 sitting	aux
20	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 chamber	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 chamber	det
23	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sitting	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 that	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 that	cop
26	next	next	ADV	_	28 that	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 that	case
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 chamber	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Prince	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Prince	det
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 that	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 heard	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 heard	cc
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 heard	aux
35	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 sitting	parataxis
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 there	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 woman	det
38	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 there	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 there	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 there	cop
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 there	case
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 wept	advmod
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 wept	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 wept	aux
45	wept	weep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 heard	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 called	cc
47	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 wept	conj
48	on	on	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 called	obl
50	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 nights	nummod
51	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 called	xcomp
52	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 nights	acl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 told	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 told	cc
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 told	nsubj
56	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 heard	conj
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 Prince	det
58	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 told	iobj
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 this	case
60	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	58 Prince	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	some Christian folk			that place; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
2	carry off	past · perfect · passive		some Christian folk				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	sit	past · perfect · progressive	places = place			the chamber		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chamber=Location
4	is	past	the chamber				to that; of the Prince; next property	tree rules
5	hear	past · perfect						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past · perfect	a woman				there property	tree rules
7	weep	past · perfect						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	call	participle		two nights			on folk	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	run	gerund	two nights not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	tell speech: assert	past	places = place		the Prince of this			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=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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